The Puritans justified laws requiring church attendance and establishing the death penalty for blaspheming a parent on the grounds that they
A) followed the early Christian practices described in the New Testament.
B) were based on government's role as a civil covenant designed to police and maintain social order.
C) were intended to create a society which promoted individual religious liberty.
D) needed to restore order because of the rampant crime in the colony.
Ans: B) were based on government's role as a civil covenant designed to police and maintain social order.
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