Wow, very different take on the Puritans political thought than I’m used to hearing. But I wonder about their association with the Federalists, who were most decidedly not republican (at least not Jeffersonians). My understanding is that Federalists relied most heavily upon two groups, business interests and Old School Puritan holdouts in the New England area especially. If that’s the case (certainly that’s the way Gordon Wood portrays it in his Empire of Liberty) then how does this square with this new interpretation?
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