Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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... Massachusetts , but at least four arrangements were clearly and designedly more liberal than those which had been imposed on the Bay colony . First , no religious quali- fication for the suffrage was fixed upon freemen or in- habitants ...
... Massachusetts , but at least four arrangements were clearly and designedly more liberal than those which had been imposed on the Bay colony . First , no religious quali- fication for the suffrage was fixed upon freemen or in- habitants ...
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... Massachusetts . Yet the beginnings of Connec- ticut's legendary " steady habits " date from a period when the stewardship of the Puritan elite was moderately and conscientiously discharged and the plain people given more voice than they ...
... Massachusetts . Yet the beginnings of Connec- ticut's legendary " steady habits " date from a period when the stewardship of the Puritan elite was moderately and conscientiously discharged and the plain people given more voice than they ...
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... Massachusetts and had made one of the most dependable props of the Rhode Island way of life . All his life he clung to a conviction that peace- fully minded men could settle their own differences with- out recourse to governmental ...
... Massachusetts and had made one of the most dependable props of the Rhode Island way of life . All his life he clung to a conviction that peace- fully minded men could settle their own differences with- out recourse to governmental ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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