"What warrant [right] have we to take that land, which is and hath been of long time possessed [by] others ...?
"That which is common to all is proper to none. [Native Americans]
ruleth over many lands without title or property, for they enclose
[fence in] no ground, neither have they cattle to maintain it. ... And
why may not Christians have liberty to go and dwell amongst them in
their waste[d] lands and woods (leaving them such places as they
have (fertilized] for their corn)...? For God hath given to the sons of
men a twofold right to the earth; there is a natural right and a civil
(political) right. The first right was natural when men held the earth in
common, every man sowing and feeding where he pleased. Then, as
men and cattle increased, they appropriated some parcels of ground
by enclosing (them as property]... and this in time got them a civil
right."
John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
"General Considerations for the Plantation in New England," 1629
and your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences, an outliner bulleted list alone is not acceptable. 1. briefly identify one historical situation in which the excerpt was produced 2. briefly describe one argument made in the excerpt 3. briefly identify one historical effect of the development described in the excerpt