BanishedA community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony. Nan Goodman suggests that the methods of banishment rivaledeven overpoweredcontractual and constitutional methods of inclusion as the means of defining