SC - OT/OOP: Re - Commonwealth?

[geneviamoas@juno.com]

But was Maryland settled by the Catholics or by those opposed to them and
departing to friendlier climes? Genevia

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:38:44 -0500 Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
writes:
>geneviamoas at juno.com wrote:
>> 
>> If Catholics ruled when it was settled the area was devided into 
>Parishes
>> - ie. Parish Priest - because it, IIRC, delineated an area that 
>could be
>> covered by one priest / judge / ... could reasonably cover.  Many 
>times
>> the priest was the Power in the area.
>> $.02
>> Genevia
>
>If that were the case, Maryland would be the same, and as far as I 
>know, is
>not. As far as I know, Louisiana is the only place in the U.S. which 
>uses
>parishes as a political delineation, which has more to do with being a
>relatively recent French colony than with the Catholic Church. I think 
>the
>role of the Church in secular government is vastly overestimated by 
>most people.
>
>I'm always interested in this topic because I live in a city that was,
>_relatively_ recently, the Dutch city of Nieuw Amsterdam, since 
>absorbed by
>the English colony of New York, and ultimately by New York State. What 
>that
>means is that New York City still has vestigial traces of its Dutch
>government, such as an entirely separate level of borough government, 
>in
>addition to the various functions overseen by the various counties. 
>Never mind
>that the seats of these counties are a single municipality that is 
>larger than
>the counties themselves, and that the map delineation, for example, 
>Kings
>County and the Borough of Brooklyn are identical, as are, with the 
>only
>exception being the Bronx, which is a separate borough from Manhattan, 
>but
>which, with Manhattan, forms New York County.
>
>This probably helps explain why our taxes are so high... .
>
>Adamantius
>Østgardr, East      
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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