John Winthrop "City Upon a Hill" and Thomas Jefferson "City Views"

John Winthrop's "City Upon A Hill", described the mission and vision to start a "New England", which became known as the United States of America. John Winthrop believed a perfect society could exist in a perfect city where everyone worshiped and worked together in harmony. He envisioned a community so closely woven together that everyone was equally important to the future of the city. A city where a purer form of Christianity would exist, which …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

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