What was Puritan leader and Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop's attitude toward liberty?
a. He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good.
b. He saw two kinds of liberty: negative liberty, the restricting of freedoms for the sake of others, and positive liberty, the assuring of rights through a constitution.
c. He believed that individual rights took precedence over the rights of the community.
d. He believed in a dictatorship, with only himself in charge of it.
e. He believed "liberty" had a religious but not a political meaning.
Answer: a. He saw two kinds of liberty: natural liberty, the ability to do evil, and moral liberty, the ability to do good.
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