Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America (1835) his classic work of political science, that religion is the first of Americans political institutions. Tocqueville could not say whether Americans were sincere in their Christian faith, for who can see into another mans soul? Yet, this young Catholic genius strongly maintained that he had seen the fruits of that faith. Americans were more capable of self-government, he wrote, because they believed that God gave them the ability, and the right, to manage their own affairs. ... apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5
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