God and Government

From F.A.C.E (Foundation for American Christian Education):

GOD AND GOVERNMENT

In proportion as Americans let go of faith in the absolute power of God, they have accepted the belief in an all powerful State. This is true of peoples or nations, for their idea of God determines the form of their civil, political, religious and social institutions . . . Each religion has a form of government, and Christianity astonished the world by establishing self-government . . . Reading and studying American history revealed the fact that this nation is unique; it had a singular beginning; it has the sacred covenant of individual freedom or local self-government in all spheres entrusted to its care.

Verna Hall, The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States:
Christian Self-Government, 1960, pp II-III.