The problem is that it seems to have been taken over by the Puritans.
However, in 1623 an act was passed against swearing, which was rigorously enforced by the Puritans.
Pentecostals are restoring much that the Puritans drove out of Christianity, such as visions, miracles and healing cures.
New England puritans reverenced reading as the key to living the godly life.
The Puritans of your -- excuse me, our -- New England colonies employed hunters to rid them of witches.
And like the Puritans before them, their secession was not merely born out of politics, but out of religious fervor.
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If he did, he might explain that the Republican party was formed around an always-uneasy alliance between Whig prosperity-mongers and Free Soil puritans.
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Arguably, in America's long history of immigration, the group that the new immigrants resemble most is the original cohort of Puritans who settled New England.
Tens of thousands of Puritans, who were religiously akin to the Pilgrims, reached America in the 1630s and 1640s, clustering in Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut.
Tension has bubbled between Boston and New York since the 17th century, when the Puritans, who founded Boston, and the Dutch, who founded New York, squabbled over Long Island.
It's especially evident in the places where the Puritans first landed and built their first settlements, where explorers traveled westward to fulfill the country's manifest destiny, and to purchase or take land by force.
Budget puritans rebelled last month not for the devilry of it but because they wanted Mr Hastert to explain what on earth his budget strategy was: how does he plan to keep spending down?
It was invented by a bunch of Puritans who celebrated freedom by throwing a party, and so bequeathed us with a holiday both secular and sacred, with parades and prayers that dare us to reckon with all that has changed, and all that has not.
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