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Puritan
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Puritan (in the late 16th and 17th centuries)
any of the more extreme English Protestants, most of whom were Calvinists, who wished to purify the Church of England of most of its ceremony and other aspects that they deemed to be Catholic


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95 (pa) Focusing on English Puritans of the 16th century, German-born American historian Mosse (1918-99) explores the relationship that certain divines managed to construct between Reformation ideas and the new Renaissance political thought--the reason of state--as expounded most explicitly by Machiavelli.
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The American Dream, which evolved out of its author's attempt to trace the history of our nation's patriotism, is organized in rough chronological order--from the English Puritans whose Biblical vision inspired a struggle to construct what Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop called a "city upon a hill" to contemporary citizens who yearn for an effortless existence.
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