Where Did We Go Wrong?

The great American experiment set about answering whether free people could govern themselves or not.

If things progress as I fear they will, the answer will be no. Why? Because, as our second president John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” I invite readers to make the case for me that our nation is made up of a moral and religious people.

Morality is the agreed upon code a society relies on to declare what is right and wrong. In the absence of an agreed upon morality, the line between right a...