"You have no power to call upon me to give the grounds of my conscience. The Spirit of God is not subject to magistrates, and what I have spoken in private I am not bound to repeat in public. I have brought no scandal upon the church, but only spoken truth as the Lord revealed it to me." — Anne Hutchinson, Trial Transcript, 1637
Hutchinson's defense most directly challenged which principle of Massachusetts Bay Colony?
- A
Practice of subsistence agriculture
- Bcheck_circle
Unity of civil and religious authority
- C
Reliance on town meetings
- D
Use of indentured servitude
Explanation
The Puritan colony fused civil and religious authority; Hutchinson's claim of direct revelation outside ministerial control threatened that fusion, leading to her banishment.