Why did john winthrop create “a city upon a hill”?

John Winthrop, addressing the Puritans aboard the Arbella in 1630, said: "... we must consider that we will be like a city on a hill, the eyes of all peoples will be watching us." The search for that utopia, the desire that the society they would found on the coasts of Massachusetts would be like a city on a hill from which they would illuminate the rest of the peoples of the world, was an ideal that was always present in the spirit of the founding fathers of the United States of America and explains the greatness of this nation.

tearing down the berlin wall.

sedition laws violated the first amendment to the u.s. constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the press.

it would mean for other coutnries that the speak of them may cause a war or a person from another country talking about it could get arrested and the countiry and other contries could count that as rasisim and start a race war.