Two Sides of the Same Sword

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Since American’s first colonization, a conception of its own phenomenality has been a cornerstone of American ideology. To the Pilgrims and other early British colonists, it was a refuge and a sort of promised land; a haven where they could practice their distinctly non-Anglican religion without the attempted constraints of the Church of England and England’s king, James I. The perpetrators of the American Revolution were convinced of their singular status in governmental experimentation, believing – not incorrectly – that they had been given an unprecedented opportunity to not simply remove a bad government, but to build a new government as best they could in its place. This spirit of unique birth matured quickly into a spirit of unique purpose, as later leaders drove towards a national ideal of political evangelism – that is, a nation that would share the bounty of its own spirit and system of government with the rest of the world. Continue reading