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　　This first examination in almost forty years of political

ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some

surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more

generally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinking

about democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America and

France in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New England

colonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of this

democratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popular

sovereignty through regular elections but also the principle of

accountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditing

and impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutional

identity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought has

misplaced the sense of robust popular control which originally

animated it.

1. Introduction: accountability and democratic theory

2. Radical trust and accountability in the seventeenth

century

3. Fidelity and accountability in Virginia and Bermuda

4. Politics and ecclesiastics in Plymouth and Massachusetts

5. Constitutional conflict and political argument at Boston

6. Democratic constitutionalism in Connecticut and Rhode

Island

7. Conclusion: anglophone radicalism and popular control

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This first examination in almost 40 years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more generally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinking about democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America and France in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New England colonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of this democratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popular sovereignty through regular elections but also the principle of accountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditing and impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutional identity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought has misplaced the sense of robust popular control that originally animated it.