John Winthrop's City Upon A Hill

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John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” has inspired many people. He inspired the colonists by this speech and some ideas from this speech is still being used. Even in American Exceptionalism, Winthrop’s idea are being reflected. The idea of “city upon a hill” by Winthrop is the idea of being the most elite city that everyone tries to be. The “city upon a hill” has the same concept of the idea of utopia of being the ideal society. With the following concept of “city upon a hill,” U.S is very closely related. U.S is quoted to be the “best country” of the world. This may be an opinion, but the idea of “best country” roots from “city upon a hill.” U.S was made from people who disagreed with the ideas of the English and broke away from those rules

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