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Democracy In America
Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER XVII: Principal Causes Maintaining The Democratic Republic--Part II
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Almighty God, hear our supplications this day.

Save the Poles, we beseech Thee, in the name of Thy well-beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who died upon the cross for the salvation of men.

Amen." The whole meeting responded "Amen!" with devotion.
Indirect Influence Of Religious Opinions Upon Political Society In The United States Christian morality common to all sects--Influence of religion upon the manners of the Americans--Respect for the marriage tie--In what manner religion confines the imagination of the Americans within certain limits, and checks the passion of innovation--Opinion of the Americans on the political utility of religion--Their exertions to extend and secure its predominance.
I have just shown what the direct influence of religion upon politics is in the United States, but its indirect influence appears to me to be still more considerable, and it never instructs the Americans more fully in the art of being free than when it says nothing of freedom.
The sects which exist in the United States are innumerable.

They all differ in respect to the worship which is due from man to his Creator, but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man.

Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all the sects preach the same moral law in the name of God.


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