Typically referred to as ‘the land of opportunities and hope’, ‘technological foundry’, and ‘the land of journey’, United States of America needs no formal introduction. In the history of America’s delivery, the names of James Madison , Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, together with different founding fathers, are shining stars. Nonetheless, few Americans right this moment would recognize the extraordinary affect on those “fathers” by such males as Adam Smith , Thomas Reid (one of many founders of Widespread Sense Philosophy), David Hume, and other philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Along this pillars of Enlightenment thought, another Scotsman carefully influenced American training, faith and politics within the Revolutionary era: Reverend John Witherspoon, the forgotten founding father, as Jeffry Morrison succinctly states in John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (College of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
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