From a prior post:
"In a similar vein, the ideas of the Founding Fathers, as Bailyn has pointed out, owed more to radical Protestantism, and the common law, (one could also add commercial self interests, including, preponderantly, smuggling, tax evasion, and slavery) than to enlightenment ideas per se."
Re Jefferson's commercial interests, in particular, not that they were especially exceptional, I would refer readers to a nice, short, article, (for the attention challenged), in Smithsonian Magazine, Henry Wiencek, "Unmasking Thomas Jefferson", October 2012, p. 40.
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