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mollifying Anti-Federalist fears by promising to add a bill of rights to the Constitution

Barnett then turns from the evolution of legal doctrine in the past to its possible change in the future and considers whether active forms of euthanasia are likely to be legalized

Debating – and Creating – Authority Setting a specially commissionedThis title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional order from a theocracy to an oligarchy, led by magistrates who created their own authority and defined the limits on their almost unlimited power. Debating and Creating Authority examines this shift in constitutional order at various levels and looks in particular at the efforts to create the theocracy and its