How to Govern A City On A Hill: The Early Puritan Contribution to American Constitutionalism

Authors

John Witte Jr., Emory University School of LawFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

0000-0001-8929-0267

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1990

Keywords

Puritans, New England, Theological doctrines, Seventeenth century, Constitutional institutions, Covenants, Church and state, Sin

Abstract

This Article explores briefly the constitutional ideas and institutions of seventeenth-century Puritan New England. It analyzes the constitutional ideas that the Puritans derived from their theological doctrines of covenant, church and state, and sin, and it examines the forms and functions of political and ecclesiastical government they devised in implementation of these ideas.

First Page

41

Publication Title

Emory Law Journal

Recommended Citation

John Witte Jr., How to Govern a City on a Hill: The Early Puritan Contribution to American Constitutionalism, 39 EMORY L. J. 41 (1990).