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Debating—and Creating—Authority: The Failure of a Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629–1649. By Elizabeth Dale. (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2001. vi, 167 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-7546-2126-X.)

In recent decades, studies of Puritan New England have focused on issues ranging from religious sensibility and doctrine to popular culture and the gendering of hierarchies. Oddly absent has been sustained attention to the nature of political authority. This lacuna is addressed by Elizabeth Dale's new study. Combining intellectual and political history, Dale examines the shifting theoretical basis of political authority in Massachusetts during its first two decades. . . .
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