Puritan minister and founder of Connecticut colony who argued for a more democratic basis for civil government than John Winthrop's oligarchic model.
Argued in A Survey of the Sum of Church-Discipline that the people should have power to choose and call their officers — a proto-democratic argument within Puritan political theology.
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