The Importance of Religion in Keeping the Citizen Incapable of Self-Government

John Avlon: George Washington is the only one in the founding who had a sense of what the enterprise was to shape a national character. The importance of religion and morality in keeping the citizen incapable of self-government was more Washington than any of the other founders, Avlon says. "He emerged out of that so powerfully that it shaped the course of almost everything that has happened since then," Avlon adds.