You completely misunderstood my point or that of Adams. You must first address the morals and virtues of the populace if the Constitution is to have any binding meaning upon the American people. Otherwise it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on and people are free to ignore it. You seem to believe the Constitution has mystical properties of enforcement outside of the will of the people to be bound by it. That is at best naive, at worst ignorant. Either way, you keep on believing that while the barbarians are at the gates.
You must first address the morals and virtues of the populace if the Constitution is to have any binding meaning upon the American people.
We stand in agreement, except for the first pronoun in the sentence. If I was to rephrase I think it would look something like “There is a need to Individually recognize we have become a corrupt nation in need of repentance in order to influence God to intervene in our behalf for the desperate situation we find ourselves due to our forgetting the God who rescued the original founders of these united States”.
Leadership still has a big impact upon public morals. That is the major factor; only the leadership has the power to subvert the Constitution.