^{82} Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), p. 4; William McLoughlin, ed. The American Evangelicals, 1800–1900; An Anthology (New York: Harper & Row 1968), p. 26, quoted in Bellah, Broken Covenant, p. 46.

^{83} George Gallup, Jr., and Jim Castelli, The People’s Religion: American Faith in the 90’s (New York: Macmillan, 1989), p. 93. For other estimates, see Cullen Murphy, «Protestantism and the Evangelicals», The Wilson Quarterly, (Autumn 1981), p. 107ff; Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism, 1870–1925, p. 228; Boston Sunday Globe, 20 February 2000, p. A1.

^{84} Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Vintage, 1954), vol. I, p. 409; Bryce, American Commonwealth, Vol. 2, p. 417–418; Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma (New York: Harper, 1944); Vol. 1, p. 495, Daniel Bell, «The End of American Exceptionalism», in Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol, eds., The American Commonwealth 1976 (New York: Basic Books, 1976), p. 209; Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword (New York: Norton, 1996), p. 63–4.

^{85} Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective (New York: Norton, 1973), p. 103.

^{86} William Lee Miller; John Higham, «Hanging Together: Divergent Unities in American History», Journal of American History, 61 (June 1974), p. 15; Jeff Spinner, The Boundaries of Citizenship (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), p. 79–80.