"In the United States even the religion of most of the citizens is republican, since it submits the truths of the other world to private judgment...."

"Aux États-Unis, la religion du plus grand nombre elle-même est républicaine; elle soumet le vérités de l'autre monde à la raison individuelle...."

     Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America I (1835).I.XVIII[.4] ("Of the republican institutions of the United States, and what their chances of duration are"), trans. Henry Reeve, with revisions by Francis Bowen and Phillips Bradley ((New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), vol. 1, p. 418);  =I.ii.X[.4] in Œuvres, ed. André Jardin (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), II (De la démocratie en Amérique), ed. Jean-Claude Lamberti and James T. Schleifer (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1992), 462.
     Cf., however, "I believe that the men who will live under the new forms of society will make frequent use of their private judgment, but I am very far from thinking that they will often abuse it" (vol. 2, p. 7, as followed up in chap. 2).