After the war, the goal of the amendment’s proponents was to arouse the “Christian people of America” into a movement “to carry out the religious idea of government in all its practical applications.” The program included Sabbath laws, the Bible in public schools, marriage and divorce laws that “conformed to the law of Christ,” a purge of “immoral and irreligious men” from office, and confining voting to “moral men” and “fearers of God.”
