Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

The early settlers—Puritans in New England, Quakers in Philadelphia, Catholics in Maryland—just wanted space to practice their own religion. In Massachusetts, in particular, those who did not abide by ...

Early Puritans in the colonies emphasized self-governance under God. Often misunderstood, they never sought a theocracy, but they did believe in a free society where the state would not regulate ...

The reason it was banned was because the Puritan government was a theocracy and would not tolerate opposing doctrinal views. Morton was also critical of the treatment of indigenous people.

THE PURITAN THEOCRACY. Share full article Feb. 6, 1887 The New York Times Archives ...

Rollingstone.com). And just as Puritan persecutors believed they were among God’s “chosen,” Trump, tellingly, has cast himself as a political and religious savior of America.

More fundamental for Puritan politics than a name and boundary change was the decision imposed on the province which extended voting rights to non-Puritans. This was a game-changer. The move ...

Theocracy, Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy. IX. Magistrates as "Nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Church" X. Theocracy in England and New England. XI. Theocracy and the Millennium -- Ch. 5.

The beginnings of New England : or, the puritan theocracy in its relation to civil and religious liberty by Fiske, John, 1842-1901 Publication date 1889 Topics Puritans, New England -- History ...

A uthors Margaret Atwood and Lauren Groff agree: it can be more effective to write truthfully about the contemporary world by situating stories in the past or in the future. Both writers discussed ...

The Massachusetts Bay Colony often is wrongly conflated with the founding of the United States, but the former established a Puritan theocracy in a 1630s British colony, while our nation was ...