these are people that for thousands of years have believed in the divine right of kings, and they haveust killed their king, and now this order is -- the church of england is destroyed and fragmented. it affects everything that goes on in the colonies, as well. the royal governments and gave permission to be here are no longer -- they are now a very weak and malformed puritan government that is struggling among itself. it has impact in a new england and causes unrest. to understand what the communities the quakers enter, there are three basic structures to community in a new england. the civil body politics, the church body, and what is known commonwealth, the family, the basic household. the single body politic is held together by a social contract, men coming together and agreeing they will submit to such just and equal laws that they create. the difference between ourselves in the modern world and the past is we receive a majority at the age of 18, and as americans, can hold the right to vote. whether male, female, or rich or poor. in the 17th century, your neighbors decide whether