When you look at the formation if the republic in regards to constraining future tyranny, I would certainly say yes.

Despotism here is being deployed from a secular POV. I don't believe puritans believed themselves despots.

The order within puritanist colonies was highly authoritative, but deferential to God, and distributed geographically, so small in scale. Localist.

There has never neen a puritanical politic at large scale.