The Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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of Independence was less then the other main people who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson's way we can say that American civil religion than it is in its present form. The outlining of the Declaration had been assigning by the Second Continental Congress to a committee of 5, of which the leading members were Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. Though Rousseau's saying "civil religion" does not seem to have been in flow in America at this time, Jefferson, whether through Rousseau or not, was a civil religion person in his usual use of language. "Adams objected stoutly to the integration of politics and religion. The Jefferson of the early 1790s, the winner of the French Revolution, was a passionate believer in, and prophet of, civil religion in the sagacity adumbrated by Rousseau." (Durand Echeverria, 1953, page 313.)

American civil religion was originally formulated by the first leaders of the U.S.A. in the Declaration of Independence and the opening ...

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