On one side, “I know of no country,” Tocqueville wrote, “where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the attention of men,” but on the other, none where reverence for religion was so widely and evenly spread. In America “liberty regards religion as its companion in all its battles and triumphs—as the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.” Indeed, “it considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law, and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.”2 Certainly since 1789, the relations between liberty and religion in
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