no peanuts in church…

Some ‘Yankee’ wisdom (via de Tocqueville)…

Each individual is therefore considered to be as enlightened, as virtuous, as strong as any of his fellows.

Ok. This means that we can do whatever we want, right...?

He obeys society, not at all because he is inferior to those who direct it, or less capable than another man of governing himself; he obeys society because union with his fellows seems useful to him and because he knows that this union cannot exist without a regulatory power.

from here: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/townships/