Virginia house of Burgesses
Mayflower compact
Fundamental orders of Connecticut
The Catholic church considered any new ideas that went against their beliefs (such as the heliocentric theory) to be heresy.
Great Britain and France gave into Hitler's demands for territory at the 1938 Munich Conference because B) Hitler promised that it was the last territorial demand in Europe. This was viewed as an effort at appeasement that did not end Nazi Germany's territorial appetite in Europe.
The answer is “Lots of rules and a strong government is good”.