Religion & the Founding: Bailyn's 'Ideological Origins of the American Revolution' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It is interesting that Locke is still cited by followers of Henry George, who are also known as Geolibertarians (which also refers to their environmental bent).
I suspect the Whig language was not just for domestic consumption. It likely carried the day in Parliament. Indeed, it was a change in government from the Tories to the Whigs that ended the possibility of a new counter-offensive against the American army - which may have indeed succeeded and produced a real insurgency period.
There was not much room for Catholics in the phampletry, however their Navy helped secure the victory at Yorktown which ended fighting in the south and held it at bay in the north.
There is no libertarian heresy - heresy is a preversion of doctrine. The libertarians could care less about such things, although they are not above speaking to the pro-life language of the rights of the unborn in order to sustain the Republican coalition. (Neither Rand Paul or Paul Ryan is pro-choice). Of course, that is enough for the Bishops to glom onto the writing of the revolution - even though it does not apply to Catholicism.
The pity is that Masonic pamphletry does not survive or remains hidden - although I am sure many pamphlet authors listed were lodge members. That fact alone would make the bishops run and hide from any association with the Revolution - though the fault is not in the Masons but in the Catholics who, like MSW, reject anything that glorifies people thinking for themselves.
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