Religion has always played an important role in American politics. Many ofth e earliest European settlers in the New World were motivated to cross the Atlanticby religious concerns, and the political institutions they established were influenced by their moral and religious convictions. The centrality ofr eligion in American life continued through the development ofth e colonies and the establishment ofth e United Statesas an independent nation. By the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville, by all accounts one ofth e most prescient observers of American society and culture, argued that for Americans religion should “be considered as the first ofth eir political institutions, for although it did not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use thereof” (1833, 292). [download]
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