Ralph, I truly enjoyed reading your assessment on the Monroe Doctrine by way of its reason for separating from European influence. I know in my paper I did not emphasize enough of the history that each colony had, as you have. Some desired to carry the Church of England to new soil, as well as some pursuing freedom from England plus its church. Observing the variances in Puritan and Quaker practices (as well as others) would carry to light the variances in those views. Quakers were freer loving, although still devout, what I see American pluralism lean more toward today, and Puritans were more traditional and legalistic. In our class book, Taking Heaven by Storm, the author describes how the Methodist church was using the seclusion of the
