In David Hall’s 2019 book Did America Have a Christian Founding?, he wrote, “America’s founders … were profoundly influenced by a biblical worldview.” Professor Daniel Dreisbach has noted that Revolutionary‑era Americans were steeped in Scripture, and that biblical phrases and stories “flowed from their tongues” as they debated liberty, rights, and governance. In a famous 1984 social science study, political scientist Donald S. Lutz analyzed thousands of pieces of American political writing from 1760 to 1805 and found that the Bible was cited more often than any European Enlightenment writer or classical source. Roughly one‑third of all citations in the massive sample were biblical, far outpacing Montesquieu, Blackstone, Locke, and the rest of the secular canon combined.
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