Did the Puritans object to ecclesiastical courts during the Puritan Movement ?
Though they had left England because of the suppression of their religious practice , most Puritans had thereafter originally settled in the Low Countries but found the licentiousness there , where the state hesitated from enforcing religious practice , as unacceptable , so with hopes of a Puritan utopia , they set out to establish the English colonies of New England , which later became the United States .