we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 9 (Letters and State Papers 1799-1811) TO THE OFFICERS OF THE FIRST BRIGADE OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE MILITIA OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Scripture anchor Micah 6:8
Why it is here
Fidelity as such (R3): spreadsheet row 1's own text, the founders' grounding of the duty — the covenant document holds only for a people who keep faith. Proposed to the pseudo-cell for the Part I chapter on the duty, independently of its Cell 1 use.