Mr Brogan is cooler towards the darker, more generalised second volume of 1840, where Tocquevillian abstractions individualism and centralisation do battle against civic mores for the soul of modern society.
Quite apart from the clear stipulations of the First Amendment, this seems to me to violate the Tocquevillian principle that American religion is strictly based on the voluntary principle and neither requires nor deserves any taxpayer-funded endorsement.