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work_dtljm3g6prbfro73qp66fsmit4	Michael Ryan	"The Puritans of Today": The Anti-Whig Argument of The Scarlet Letter	2008.0	26	.pdf	application/pdf	9801	991	67	and takes the side of natural religion against the Whig ideal of moral Keywords: religion, politics, Whig, Democrat, morality liberal theologians such as Burton and Bushnell, God was a presence in nature which guaranteed that human passion was intrinsically moral and that human striving could lead to salvation. called ''moral government'' would merge law and religion, Whigs to justify its ideal of moral government, Democratic political theory natural passions as everyone else, implies a similar question regarding the Whigs who sought to establish moral government moral effects of people's economic dependence on Uncle Sam. Whig economic policy called for the government to subsidize aesthetic, by abstracting imaginatively from the facts of sense perception—the basis, according to orthodox neo-Puritan epistemology, of moral truth—allows access to spirit in nature.7 Exercising positive conception of Puritan moral government, while Democrats In the character of Chillingworth, Whig moral government is represented as an assault on the theological foundations of Democratic	./cache/work_dtljm3g6prbfro73qp66fsmit4.pdf	./txt/work_dtljm3g6prbfro73qp66fsmit4.txt