[knarf]

I found that about 4 or 5 years ago when there was some controversy about a church and pastor having IRS troubles for speaking politics from the pulpit.
I always suspected our nation was motivated as much from the pulpit as from the Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers and et-cetera's.

I never forgot Samuel West.

[GoLightly]

While my thinking goes back further to "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" by Étienne de la Boétie & the Huguenot pamphleteers who printed & distributed his work.

http://www.mises.org/rothbard/boetie.asp#_ftnref61

The Protestant "uprising" begun by Luther had far reaching consequences.