Although Bellah further argued that this specific estimation of religion has been powerful in the American political and civil life since the founding generation with very little successive creation, he believed also that ‘civil religion’ as originally established by early American political leaders reflected their personal as well as their private views, and it has profoundly informed the character of ‘American civil religion’ which has a set of sacred texts including: the Declaration of Independence , the constitution , the Federalist papers . Moreover, in his article Civil Religion in America, Bellah examined the speeches and writing of the American ‘Founding Fathers’ and later generations of the American political leaders, who established
