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The Massachusetts Bodies of Liberties were written by a Puritan minister, Nathaniel Ward, who was also trained as a lawyer. He arrived at the colony in 1634 and was a pastor at Ipswich for a while.
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The Massachusetts Bodies of Liberties set down the basic code of laws the colonists could follow, which set down the basic foundation for other documents to come and mold our government.
The Bodies of Liberties were written in the Puritan age, in 1641, when religion was highly regarded. Most of the things mentioned in the document involve God or things pertaining to religion.
The main ideas were to establish what the free man could or could not do, the liberties of women, the liberties of children, the liberties of servants, the liberties of foreigners and strangers, the rights of animals used for labor or livestock, Capital Laws, and "a Declaration of the Liberties the Lord Jesus hath given to the Churches."
The Bodies of Liberty were written to establish a Puritan code of laws for a newly formed Massachusetts colony.