December 17, 2020
On January 11, 1989, Ronald Reagan delivered a famous farewell address to the nation. Near the end of the speech, he evoked the historic words of Puritan leader John Winthrop, giving his vision of what it means for the United States to be a “shining city upon a hill”:
In my mind, it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
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New English Canaan
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New English Canaan is a three-volume work of history, natural history, satire, and poetry by the lawyer and New England colonist Thomas Morton (l. c. 1579-1647 CE) published in 1637 CE. The book developed out of legal briefs Morton prepared for a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Company and its settlement, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to revoke their charter in New England and replace the existing government with one presided over by Sir Ferdinando Gorges (l. c. 1565-1647 CE), Morton s employer, who held the patent for the colonization of present-day Maine and part of Massachusetts.