John Witherspoon s American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Unive

John Witherspoon s American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Unive

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In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jerseys sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. Although Witherspoon is often thought to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophy in America, Mailers comprehensive analysis of this founding fathers writings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoons Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world.John Witherspoons American Revolution examines the connection between patriot discourse and longstanding debates already central to the 1707 Act of Union about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism. In Witherspoons mind, Americans became different from other British subjects because more of them had been awakened to the sin they shared with all people. Paradoxically, acute consciousness of their moral depravity legitimized their move to independence by making it a concerted moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailers exploration of Witherspoons thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.

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