20. The Puritans "Purify": Theocracy in Massachusetts

20. The Puritans “Purify”: Theocracy in Massachusetts

Concieved in Liberty, Volume I — A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

Tags: U.S. History

04/03/2008 Murray N. Rothbard

Pages 174-181 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 3 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume I: “The Founding of New England.”

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