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DISCUSSION OF THE FRANCHISE OF PURITAN MASSACHUSETTS The controversy of weather the citizens of the Bay Colony was either democratic or oligarchic can be inferred by all the knowledge acquired from different point f views of different historians. The data presented is not always reliable and it is sometimes senseless. The definition of polity as democratic depends fundamentally on the extent of the franchise (Brown 212). The original charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, granted in England in 1629 and used as a constitution by the first settlers, allowed a general court of stockholders and officials to make laws governing company affairs and provided rules for admitting new members (freeman). A law of 1631 limited voting on provincial matters to church members who had taken the oath of foremanship, and four years later this ruling was applied to local or town voting as well. A 1647 law revised the qualifications for town...

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