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 wasted 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 England1629
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Using the excerpt answer (a), (b), and (c)
(a) Briefly identify ONE historical situation in which the excerpt was produced.
(b) Briefly describe ONE argument made in the excerpt.
(c) Briefly identify ONE historical effect of the development described in the excerpt.