They should persuade him that we are not running a theocracy, at least, not as yet.
He worked with might and main for the continuation of the old theocracy, but before he died it had given way before an increasing Liberalism - even Yale was infected with the Episcopalianism that he hated.
It's just the first step in an attempt to create a theocracy.
The northern or New England element began by endeavouring to establish a Puritan theocracy which broke down.
Neglect as well as mob violence left the ecclesiastical buildings in a ruinous condition, but the authority of the preachers, with their power of boycotting (excommunication), became a theocracy.