Mises Wire
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Mark Thornton
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[Excerpt from “ The Fall and Rise of Puritanical Policy in America ,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 1 (1996): 143–60] America was colonized by Europeans seeking economic and religious liberty, with many of the colonies founded explicitly along theocratic lines. The most notorious of these groups, the Puritans, founded the Massachusetts