Debating - and Creating - Authority

The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-72455-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional order from a theocracy to an oligarchy, led by magistrates who created their own authority and defined the limits on their almost unlimited power. Debating-and Creating-Authority examines this shift in constitutional order at various levels and looks in particular at the efforts to create the theocracy and its subsequent collapse in terms of a fundamental democratical flaw at the centre of the theocratic ideal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dale, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; Imagining a polity; A system at odds with itself; Crises of authority; Failure of authority; Authority and orthodoxy; Reinterpretations; Untethering the beast; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Dale, Assistant Professor, US Legal History Department of History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA