Modern Day Puritan

 The Puritans were a strict group of people. They were all ruled by a theological form of government and as such everyday aspects of life that we might consider secular were in fact religious. The judicial system of the town was a good example of this since the laws were based on morals and not actual justice like our judicial system today is.

 The whole concept of theocracy wasn't a bad one in my opinion, i think it could realistically work, just not in the way that the Puritans played it out. They played it out as if the world we live in is perfect and the people in it are flawless. They tried to build a utopia and as history has shown us time and time again, its just about impossible to  build a utopia, as hard as people may try. They might not have tried to build the most perfect setting but they tried to build one where there wasn't forgiveness or mistakes and the law was harshly enforced. What ended up happening was that the people become more lax and lenient and allowed for more and more rules to be bent and broken until they really didn't matter anymore.

 The United States as a whole also kind of tried this. When it first started out, a constitution was written with specific wording to ensure that the voice of the people was heard and that the government was truly run by the citizens. This was a Utopian idea to be honest and it soon became clear why. As time passed, it became prevalent and this wasn't the case and that people were corrupting and manipulating the system so that they gained from it and the general public didn't. This is still going on today and the question of a perfect government system is one that we still don't really have an answer to yet but the gradual withering of a Utopia on paper is the thing that both the United States and Boston have/had in common.

Note to Mr. McCarthy: This is the Post that i accidentally saved as a draft for a week