In 1790, George Washington wrote to the Roman Catholics of America to thank them personally for the patriotic part which you took in. The accomplishments of the Revolution. It is popular today to claim the founding was merely a brainchild of the Enlightenment. But the Revolution was not a radical rupture with the past. It was a renewal of an older inheritance fitted to the unique experience of a free Christian people in the New World. (03:11–03:20)
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Asserts that the American Revolution was not solely a product of Enlightenment ideas.
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