Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Puritan Political Thought

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2011-02-16

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This 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.

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Puritanism, New England, liberalism, communitarianism, American political thought, colonial history, theology

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