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While not preventing the [[American Civil War]], a heightened moral sense of guilt and accountability is seen expressed in President [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s ''Proclamation for a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer'' (1863),<ref>http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/ProclamationNationalFastDay.html</ref> which states (in part),
While not preventing the [[American Civil War]], a heightened moral sense of guilt and accountability is seen expressed in President [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s ''Proclamation for a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer'' (1863),<ref>http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/ProclamationNationalFastDay.html</ref> which states (in part),
{{cquote|We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!}}
{{cquote|We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!}}
This growth of evangelical faith thwarted the hopes of some men such as the anti-clerical [[Thomas Jefferson]], who had came to imagine that complete liberty of conscience would result religions based on on "reason" versus Biblical revelation with its supernatural aspects, stating in 1822,“There is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.” However, in reality the withering of much of institutionalized "religious establishments in the wake of the American Revolution proved to be the making of bible-based, evangelical Christianity. By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, only a minority of Americans adhered to Unitarianism and other rationalist religions, but hundreds of thousands had embraced evangelical Christianity. And those revival converts of the Second Great Awakening were investing their energies in an ever-expanding number of voluntary associations promoting moral and social reform, which immeasurably strengthened the influence of evangelical Protestants on public opinion and political culture in the United States." <ref>http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/sepchust.htm</ref>
And as it is impossible for a constitutional government to separate its laws from the ideology of its founders, and which in a democratic society will also reflect that of the people, this growth of evangelical faith affected the understanding of [[separation of church and state]], as has America's later spiritual declension in Christian faith.
====Early to mid 20th century====
====Early to mid 20th century====