[gumby]

Henry was long dead before England colonized North America. Of course there was no Enlightenment "movement" (for lack of a better term) at that time so I thought it would be obvious that I was talking about the USA, i.e. late 18th century (1760s - 1780s) where indeed, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau et al were far more influential among the power structure than the book of Leviticus.

Which you can trivially confirm for yourself by a cursory glance at, for example, the Federalist papers, writings of Franklin, Jefferson et al.