The Whig political party that emerged from the late 17th Century had much to gain from advocating that British and British colonial prosperity lay in the political triumph of their ideas and actions during the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Whig case brilliantly made by Locke recast partisan views into high principles – linking „secure property‟, limitations on government and personal religious and political freedom. This political propaganda strongly influenced the intellectual origins and underlying political ethos of the US, and has done much to shape thinking on political economy in the US-dominated economics profession and, as a result, affected international development.