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In short, the colony began to prosper when it dispensed with its socialist form of government and implemented, instead, a free, entrepreneurial system.
Of their experience with socialism, Bradford wrote, This community [i.e., socialism] was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort . . . and showed the vanity of that conceit of Plato's, and applauded by some of later times, that
the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as...
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Like the Pilgrims who had preceded him, Winthrop considered their founding documents to be a covenant with God. He insisted that they had come to America, not to fulfill their own plan and purpose, but instead, to fulfill the plan and purpose of Almighty God.
