How does benjamin rush’s decision to forsake private practice as a physician and join the war effort indicate what sort of people were attracted to the revolution?

The answer to the question: How does Benjamin Rush´s decision to forsake private practice as a physician and join the war effort indicate what sort of people were attracted to the revolution?, would be, that he, like most educated believers and followers of the American Enlightment, also believed in the righteouness of fighting for the just cause of self-government and independence. Thus, like Rush, most of those men who strongly supported the revolution, and participated in all aspects of it, were educated men who had been influenced by the ideals of Enlightment.

Explanation:

Benjamin Rush was a surgeon, and physician from Philadelphia, who became a strong supported of the ideals of Enlightment, and especially of freedom and liberty in America. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and he also served as a surgeon on the Continental Army. He also participated in the Continental Congress and he became of the leaders  who managed to have the Constitution of 1788 ratified by Pennsylvania.