Second Great Awakening:

The beginning of the Second Great Awakening:

From the vantage point of 1789, the year in which government began under the U.S. Constitution, it would have been difficult to anticipate the picture Tocqueville was to draw fifty years later. To be sure, Christians had contributed a great deal to the War for Independence, both practically and ideologically. In addition, the Christian faith enjoyed a considerable reservoir of support among the population. Where religious assumptions, presuppositions, convictions, or conventi