Four Lost Legacies of the Early New England Civil Polity: I. the Old Colony ...
Four Lost Legacies of the Early New England Civil Polity: I. the Old Colony ...
Bacon Leonard Woolsey
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supporting the national administration or of condemning \t? This, remember, was a characteristic feature of the fundamental 6 FOUR LOST LEGACIES OF THE EARLY N. E. CIVIL POLITY. law of " the Old Colony " of little Plymouth. I am no blind bigot in my admiration of the Pilgrims. I am not prepared to admit that the Separatism of Plymouth was a higher and truer churchmanship than the Nationalism of Salem and Boston. But I am struck with wonder at the high wisdom of the Pilgrims in their founding of... the civil state. There were many bold and original strokes of political reform delivered in those early New England days. There was the splendid coup d'etat of the Bay colonists in bringing their charter across the seas and so creating an autonomous state. There was the great law reform of the New Haven men, by which they dropped over- board, as they sailed, the precedents of English law — common law, statute law and canon law — and gave their republic a fresh start from the Pentateuch, resolving, as the historian Knickerbocker puts it, to be governed by the laws of God until they had time to make better for themselves.
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