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John Winthrop's Three Compromises
John Winthrop's speech to the Massachusetts General Court he outlines two types of liberties in early America. He calls the two liberties Natural liberty and civil or federal liberty. In John Winthrop’s speech he describes that if men follow natural liberty they will become more and more evil over time and eventually become worse than beast’s. If men are allowed to do as they please man and authority cannot co-exist. Men who follow natural liberty are a great evil to truth and peace “Which all ordinances of God are bent against, to restrain and subdue it.”
The other type of liberty called civil and federal. This liberty is described as “good, just, and honest.” It is the best compromise so that man and authority can live together and society
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