... "freemen" who were a part of the Puritan churches were allowed to vote. The town governments consisted of all male property holders, voted by a majority rule. 2. Government was not a true democracy; only Puritans could vote. 3. Puritans and non-Puritans alike had to pay a church tax. 4. Religious leaders were very influential. John Cotton was a devoted Puritan who defended the gov'ts ... Hooker moved west into the Connecticut River valley area and into Hartford which was founded in 1635. 2. 1639- Fundamental Orders was drawn up by new Connecticut River colony. It was a modern constitutio...

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... that revolutionary act was the abdication of the king by the reinstalled parliament of Charles II in 1688, in America the Declaration of Independence in 1776, in France the declaration of the Third Estate to be the National Assembly in June 1789 and in Ireland the rising in 1798. GENERAL SIMILARITIES: The most significant similarity is certainly the intention to change something. The reasons for these intentions are ... than the burden of the sanctions themselves. It was the symbolic character 'and', 'or' the change of regulations they implied that was of importance. In America the Stam...

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