Alyssa True’s Reviews > American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans > Status Update

[Winthrop] also argued that a code of colonial laws was prohibited by the charter, which required making "no laws repugnant to the laws of England." Bremer notes, quote much of what was done in New England was, indeed, repugnant to the laws of England, but as long as that practice was customary and not mandated by the state, the letter of the charter provision was not violated."

This explains A LOT.