^{107} Newsweek, 8 July 2002, p. 23–25; New York Times, 27 June 2002, p. A1, A21.

^{108} New York Times, 27 June 2002, p. A21, 1 July 2002, p. A8, 1 March 2003, p. A2.

^{109} New York Times, 29 Nov 1999, p. A14.

^{110} Gaines M. Foster, «A Christian Nation: Signs of a Covenant», in John Bodnar, ed. Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), p. 121–22; Nathan O. Hatch, The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), p. 22; Robert Middlekauff, «The Ritualization of the American Revolution», in Stanley Cohen and Lormon Ratner, eds., The Development of an American Culture (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2^nd ed., 1983), p. 50–53; Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U. S. History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 75; Michael Novak, God’s Country: Taking the Declaration Seriously (Washington, D. C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1999 Francis Boyer Lecture, 2000), p. 12–17.

^{111} Quotations from Walter A. McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 38; Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2^nd ed., 1992), p. 180–82; Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 214; Novak, God’s Country, p. 25–26; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Vintage, 1945), vol. 1, p. 316.

^{112} Sidney E. Mead, The Nation With the Soul of a Church (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), p. 78ff.