Law and Religion in Plymouth Colony

AuthorScott Douglas Gerber
PositionVisiting Professor, Brown University's Political Theory Project; Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University
Pages167-191
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2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the planting of Plymouth Colony. Although
the literature about Plymouth is voluminous, the discussion about law and religion
         
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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
          

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For the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, law was both the memorialization of their
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
          
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.”
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Plymouth Colony, law, religion, colonial America
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© 2019 Scott Douglas Gerber, published by Sciendo.
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