The proposition that the ungodly are not up to the demands of virtuous citizenship has been an abiding concern, a commonplace of American political discourse from the founding.
The second president of United States, John Adams, wrote in 1798,
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”
It was believed that religion alone was able to check the passions – from avarice to ambition – that would otherwise unravel the country's republican form of government.
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