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In the United States, religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and upon the details of public opinion; but it directs the customs of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the state.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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By Regulating Domestic Life

Topic: Family & Friendship

‘In the United States, religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and upon the details of public opinion; but it directs the customs of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the state.‘

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
American Civil Religion
Democracy in America

Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture II. Universal Peace Federation, 2011, p. 980 [Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Pg. 183].

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Home We Build Together

“Faith schools and religious communities… protect endangered values. They are seedbeds of unfashionable virtues. Tocqueville saw this in nineteenth-century America: ‘In the United States, religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and upon the details of public opinion; but it directs the customs of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the state.’ It sanctifies marriage. Therefore it preserved society. If marriage is to be renewed in our society, it will be, not least, because of our religious counter-cultures.”

–Jonathan Sacks (The Home We Build Together) P. 216

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