... which they had sacrificed so much. The matter of popular government did not come without some friction. In the matter of local government, the old system of England, namely half ecclesiastical and half political, was reproduced in the towns. But it soon lost its religious functions and became a political unit, with rebellious absolute control of local government. The Hutchinson family applied ... ...

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