Adams wrote that the settlement of America was part of a providential plan 'for the illumination of the ignorant and emancipation of the slavish part of mankind,' first in America, then all over the world.
He invented a hick-farmer archetype, and extolled his sense and shrewdness. He was 'made of as good a Clay as the so-called Great Ones of the world.' 'The mob, the herd and the rabble, as the Great always delight to call them,' were, 'by the unalterable laws of God and Nature, as well entitled to the benefit of the air to breathe, light to see, food to eat, clothes to wear, as the nobles or the king.'
As John Adams was to put it, long afterwards: 'The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the mind and hearts of the people: a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.'
He shared the view of Franklin and Washington. The day the Declaration of Independence was signed, Adams wrote to his wife Abigail: 'The second day of July 1776 ... ought to be commemorated ... by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.' Adams never changed his opinion that belief in God and the regular practice of religion were needful to the good society: 'One great advantage of the Christian religion is that it brings the great principle of the law of nature and nations, love your neighbour as yourself, and do to others as you would that others should do to you - to the knowledge, belief and veneration of the whole people. Children, servants, women as well as men are all professors in the science of public as well as private morality ... The duties and rights of the citizen are thus taught from early infancy to every creature.'
He noted that certain old New England families as the Winthrops and the Cottons - and his own - sought the pursuit of service to God and man.
According Marshall, appointed by Adams, it was the duty of the court so to interpret the Constitution that capitalism was thus enable to do its job of developing the vast territories which Almighty God, in his wisdom, had given the American people just as he had once given the Promised Land to the Israelites.
