Law and Religion in Plymouth Colony
Author | Scott Douglas Gerber |
Position | Visiting Professor, Brown University's Political Theory Project; Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University |
Pages | 167-191 |
2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the planting of Plymouth Colony. Although
the literature about Plymouth is voluminous, the discussion about law and religion
that can be ascertained by focusing on law.
natural law argued that law is the exercise of reason to deduce binding rules of
Karl von Savigny and other proponents of the so-called historical school, law is the
For the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, law was both the memorialization of their
enacted by the Pilgrims that addressed the day-to-day activities of life in Plymouth
which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.”
Plymouth Colony, law, religion, colonial America
© 2019 Scott Douglas Gerber, published by Sciendo.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
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