So succesful were the drafters of the Constitution in defining government in secular terms that one of the most powerful criticisms of the Constitution when ratified and for succeeding decades was that it was indifferent to Christianity and God. It was denounced by many as a godless document, which is precisely what it is. — Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore [The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), p. 23.]