Abstract
The Puritan experience during the early years of the Massachusetts Bay Colony provides crucial insight into the concept of representation. Close attention to Puritan political thought and activity reveals that substantive ideas about human nature, community, and government purpose helped shape the concept of representation. This study suggests that a historical and regime-bound understanding of representation—one that gives due weight to political struggles and competing understandings of human nature, community, and government purpose—offers a useful way to understand the concept’s development in the United States.
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