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 ensuring 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 the Puritan community.
E) He believed "liberty" had a religious but not a political meaning.
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