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There can be little doubt that the founders of the United States of America intended the new nation to be a commercial republic in which interest would play the role of virtue. The founders were not immoral men, but they suspected moral posturing, and they feared the Puritan ideal of the Holy Commonwealth. When Benjamin Franklin moved that the sessions of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 be opened with prayer, his motion lost on the issue of who would pray. Would it be a Congregationalist from Massachusetts, a Baptist from Rhode Island, a Dutch Reformed from New York, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, a Catholic from Maryland, or an Episcopalian from Virginia? Those of us who know it should have been a Presbyterian from New Jersey understand why the founders chose to avoid the decision.
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Chandler, R.C. (1988). The Commercial Republic Re-examined: A Critique of the Economization Model of Public Policy Making. In: Hula, R.C. (eds) Market-Based Public Policy. Policy Studies Organization Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08891-1_12
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