Northeast Legends and Stories

Thomas Hooker: The Puritan Who Invented Democracy in 1639


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The forgotten founder: how rebel preacher Thomas Hooker fled Massachusetts, led a wilderness exodus in 1636, and wrote the Fundamental Orders, the world’s first written constitution that put “we the people” in charge 137 years before Jefferson. Epic full-length episode!

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Northeast Legends and StoriesBy Michael DeLude