How Did the Debate Between Public Morality and Private Freedom

question 45

Multiple Choice

How did the debate between public morality and private freedom inform political debate in the 1780s?

• A) The Americans who preached public morality did not believe in political debate.
• B) Because public morality and private freedom are in direct contrast, they mirror the political debates of the 1780s about tyranny versus republicanism.
• C) Because public morality leads to private freedom, Americans believed that British tyranny would lead to American democracy.
• D) Americans defended individual rights but believed that a society without virtue couldn't preserve liberty and independence.
• E) Because English colonialism had imposed public morality, Americans rejected it for private freedom.

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