The principles that were instead established in America’s new republican society was best exemplified by the ideas developed during the Age of Enlightenment, such as liberty, progress, religious tolerance, separation of church and state.
This era also gave rise to the idea of democracy. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson played a large part in bringing these ideas to the attention to the other Founding Fathers. Due to this, American republicanism in particular puts high emphasis on consent of the governed, avoiding corruption, and getting rid of aristocracy.
