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"DEMOCRACY, THEOCRACY, ARISTOCRACY, AND THE RULE OF LAW IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES, 1620-1686 explores the emergence of various governmental formations in early New England. Namely, pertinent data on the variations of government in the Massachusetts Bay and New Haven colonies are examined for democratic, theocratic, and aristocratic topography. Lievin Kambamba Mboma particularly tackles the instaurations of democratic forms of government in Plymouth, Connecticut, Rhode Island and the settlements of New Hampshire and Maine while under Massachusetts Bay colonial governance. Principal actors like Governors John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, Richard Bellingham, Harry Vane, Theophilus Eaton, Roger Williams, and John Haynes are discussed given the influence of their personal political thoughts and religious convictions. Mboma similarly notes the contributions of John Cotton, John Davenport, and Thomas Hooker as religious ministers and government actors. With keen analysis, Mboma simultaneously records the democratic principles advocated by ""freemen"" in their respective towns, plantations, and villages. When all is considered, clear principles of rule of law in the colonies are revealed as creating the bedrock of Western government, including those of freemen, freedom of conscience and religion, equal justice, personal security, and civil liberties. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, The English Magna Charta, the Connecticut Fundamental Orders of 1639, The Connecticut Code of 1650, The Mayflower Compact signed in 1620, the Rhode Island Code of 1647 and the Rhode Island Charter of 1663 serve as important primary sources for the laws and orders enacted to secure the liberties of the freemen, servants, and strangers which continue to shape contemporary governance in the United States. Readers will thus understand Mboma's insertion of the Constitution of the United States and his juxtaposing it with law in the New England colonies to connect the continuation of liberties in our current era. For deeper understanding, towns liberties enjoyed by the freemen along with milestones in the evolution of the representative system of the New England colonies during the period under analysis are presented, and the expansions of self-governing forms of government in New Jersey, New York, and the Puritan settlements in South Carolina and Georgia are analyzed. This work offers scholars, professors, students, and the public vital information on the forms of government instituted in the New England colonies and allows for historical mapping of the legal principles and rule of law that subsequently shaped government in the free nations and United States generally."

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"Lievin Kambamba Mboma takes a deep dive into not just the complex history of early New England, but its very structure. He traces the evolution of a region with several different and often competing governance models to a more homogenized system loosely based on the English system of Civil Parish - District - County, which is most democratic (though partly theocratic) at the local level and becomes more and more aristocratic at higher levels. The work methodically explores specific components of freedom and governance, including the liberties of freemen, liberties of conscience and religion, and representation and demonstrates how they were protected in different jurisdictions throughout New England. It also shows how the New England model was exported to Long Island, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Georgia, and demonstrates links to the U. S. Constitution more than a century later. ToM Hardiman Keeper and Executive Director of the Portsmouth Athenaeum Didactic Book! Lievin Kambamba Mboma gives the readers a great picture of early American and the New England colonies' political system in the 17th century. He depicts conception, labor pains, and the miscarriage of theocracy and aristocracy, with the survival of democracy. This great book is an investigation of the evolution of liberties of conscience and religion, including the representative system in the New England colonies. Furthermore, this work indicates the expansion of the New England colonies' self-governing system in New Jersey, South Carolina, and Georgia. This book is Well researched, well written, and very easy to read and comprehend. Dr. Raymond Sarbach Kinzounza Minister, Free-lance interpreter and translator (English-French-Lingala-Kituba), Writer, Pruitt Branch, Nashville Public Library Manager. ""Lievin Mboma's work is a great deep dive into the inner workings and history of the colonial political structure, while also highlighting the construction of the various institutions that created the foundations of the future states. William R Parker, Instructor of History, Motlow State Community College William R Parker History Instructor SGA Advisor-Fayetteville Humanities and Social Sciences"

"Lievin Kambamba Mboma takes a deep dive into not just the complex history of early New England, but its very structure. He traces the evolution of a region with several different and often competing governance models to a more homogenized system loosely based on the English system of Civil Parish - District - County, which is most democratic (though partly theocratic) at the local level and becomes more and more aristocratic at higher levels. The work methodically explores specific components of freedom and governance, including the liberties of freemen, liberties of conscience and religion, and representation and demonstrates how they were protected in different jurisdictions throughout New England. It also shows how the New England model was exported to Long Island, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Georgia, and demonstrates links to the U. S. Constitution more than a century later. Tom Hardiman Keeper and Executive Director of the Portsmouth Athenaeum Didactic Book! Lievin Kambamba Mboma gives the readers a great picture of early American and the New England colonies' political system in the 17th century. He depicts conception, labor pains, and the miscarriage of theocracy and aristocracy, with the survival of democracy. This great book is an investigation of the evolution of liberties of conscience and religion, including the representative system in the New England colonies. Furthermore, this work indicates the expansion of the New England colonies' self-governing system in New Jersey, South Carolina, and Georgia. This book is Well researched, well written, and very easy to read and comprehend. Dr. Raymond Sarbach Kinzounza Minister, Free-lance interpreter and translator (English-French-Lingala-Kituba), Writer, Pruitt Branch, Nashville Public Library Manager. ""Lievin Mboma's work is a great deep dive into the inner workings and history of the colonial political structure, while also highlighting the construction of the various institutions that created the foundations of the future states. William R Parker, Instructor of History, Motlow State Community College William R Parker History Instructor SGA Advisor-Fayetteville Humanities and Social Sciences"

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