ИСТОРИЈСКИ КОРЕНИ ПОЛИТИЧКОГ СИСТЕМА СЈЕДИЊЕНИХ АМЕРИЧКИХ ДРЖАВА И КОНГРЕГАЦИОНАЛИЗАМ (ПУРИТАНИЗАМ)
THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CONGREGATIONALISM (PURITANISM)

Summary/Abstract: The political system of the United States of America has derived from a variant (faction) of Protestant Christianity, Congregationalism or Puritanism, which emphasizesthe importance of the Old Testament Judaism and the doctrine of predestination(pre-determination). As such, Puritanism played an essential role in the emergenceof the American type of democracy and the cruel colonization of the present-dayterritory of the United States. The first English colonists of the present-day UnitedStates territories were the Puritans. In line with their precept of Christianity, thePuritans considered themselves to be “the chosen people of God,” perceiving thestate, church and economics as institutions based on the covenant between the members of the specific nation. By contrast, the non-Christian Native American Indianswere considered to be “the devil’s children,” whom God had doomed to failure. Theact of dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, aswell as the engagement in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, are the expression ofsuch religious and moral perceptions. Yet, Puritanism still features a strong trait ofChristian Love embodied in the New Testament. This trait came to the fore in theMarshall Plan, the American recovery program aimed at reviving European economies after the Second World War. Similarly, in the early years of Tito’s regime, whenthe Serbian agricultural production was almost completely extinguished in 1946 byintroducing “peasant co-operatives” and forced purchase of grain products, whichput Serbian children at risk of dying from famine, the American President Trumansaved Serbia from famine by delivering food, money and medicines

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