Ellis, JosephMarkovits, ElizabethPyle, ChristopherDavis, Brigid2011-02-162011-02-162011-02-162009-06-28http://hdl.handle.net/10166/672This project examines the political thought of some of the New England Puritans, seeking to show that their proto-liberal ideas and their community-oriented habits were not two systems grown from conflicting assumptions, but interdependent elements of a complex foundation.en-USPuritanismNew EnglandliberalismcommunitarianismAmerican political thoughtcolonial historytheologyThesispublic