 | Sara S. McLanahan, Elisabeth Donahue, Ron Haskins - Political Science - 2008 - 177 pages
...related to greater religious participation. Tocqueville observed, "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."49 That statement is still true with respect to the developed nations today: religious vitality... | |
 | Robert Michael - History - 2005 - 262 pages
...get them to conceive of the one without the other" and that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."24 Two Supreme Court cases, Vidal v. Girard's Executors in the 1840s and Holy Trinity Church... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - History - 2006 - 261 pages
...history, when people understand the truth. Chapter Two In The Beginning: The early settlements There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian...there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of it's conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - History - 2006 - 262 pages
...history, when people understand the truth. Chapter Two In The Beginning: The early settlements There is no country In the whole world in which the Christian...there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of it's conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened... | |
 | Robert E. Greenwood - 2006 - 416 pages
...impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it... There is no country in the whole world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility ... than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened a free nation of the earth... | |
 | Gerald McKevitt - History - 2007 - 448 pages
...caught my attention," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote when he toured the United States in 1831. "There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian...influence over the souls of men than in America." Religion, the French visitor concluded, "is the foremost of the institutions of the country."2 De Tocqueville's... | |
 | Helen L. Laird - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 527 pages
...something of the societal change since Alexis de Tocqueville observed that "there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."20 America could no longer be assumed to be a Christian country — not in its great urban... | |
 | Todd M. Kerstetter - Lakota Indians - 2006 - 225 pages
...advances of the white man. —Bismarck (ND) Tribune, June 17,1874 There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America THE PEOPLING OF NORTH AMERICA may have been an inherently... | |
 | Andrew Kohut, Bruce Stokes - History - 2006 - 283 pages
...the United States the sovereign authority is religious . . . there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. . . . Religion in America . . . must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that... | |
 | Richard G. Kyle - Religion - 2006 - 360 pages
...enabled the French observer de Tocqueville to proclaim that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."3 Most obvious, the disestablishment of religion leveled the playing field, giving all denominations... | |
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States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ; and there can be no... 
