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Saints and Strangers: Mayflower Compact: Structure for a Colony, The
Over the course of the first ten years, the Puritans convert the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company into a functioning constitution for their colony The town meeting becomes the cornerstone of community life as local issues are decided by adul...
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Divergent Paths: Governance of New England Towns
A very different form of community emerges in New England, one that is also distinctly American. Here the primary social unit is not the isolated farm, but the town-a tightly knit community of people bound together by their town covenant. In order t...