Posted on Oct 4, 2021
Plymouth Colony Drafts the First Laws in North America - New England Historical Society
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On October 4, 1636, in Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's first law as drafted. An excerpt from the article:
"Democracy formally took root in North America on Oct. 4, 1636, when Plymouth Colony drew up the first legal code on the continent.
Plymouth Colony was settled in 1620 by Anglicans and Separatists, also known as Brownists, and later known together as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims believed God commended them to adopt democracy as their form of government. And that government should enforce religious belief."
"Democracy formally took root in North America on Oct. 4, 1636, when Plymouth Colony drew up the first legal code on the continent.
Plymouth Colony was settled in 1620 by Anglicans and Separatists, also known as Brownists, and later known together as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims believed God commended them to adopt democracy as their form of government. And that government should enforce religious belief."
Plymouth Colony Drafts the First Laws in North America - New England Historical Society
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And many of those religious beliefs were still in place in most of New England when I was a kid in the 1950s. Some still are.
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Great history. They got the first one of the 2 right as far as I'm concerned. Especially what were hearing what happened at those Christian Indian schools.
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