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Robinson

John Robinson, Puritan minister to the Pilgrims who settled New England, articulated a vision of faith and community grounded in freedom of conscience, voluntary association, and self-governance under covenant rather than coercion. His insistence that believers must be free to follow truth as it is progressively understood—captured in his counsel that God had “more truth and light yet to break forth”—helped shape the Pilgrims’ commitment to consent-based governance and accountable authority, later reflected in early American constitutional practice.