Americans in the 19th century, for example, who wanted to Christianize the Constitution with a Christian amendment sought not to overthrow secularist principles embedded in the Constitution but to correct a mistake of omission and thereby bring the Constitution fully in line with American principles.65 Christianizing American civil institutions is simply making explicit what is already implicit in them. For example, after agreeing to place “In God We Trust” on US coinage, James Pollock, the director of the US Mint, wrote, “We claim to be a Christian nation—why should we not vindicate our
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