I'm no Constitutional expert, but I was under the impression that the Founders, operating with the same Enlightenment spirit that was to guide the French Revolution, specifically attempted to equate constitutional legitimacy with moral legitimacy in an effort to create a secular government that enshrined the basic values of the human spirit. My understanding, admittedly that of an outsider, is that the Founders wanted to keep religion at arm's length to inhibit the kinds of pressure to which European governments had been (and in some cases, continue to be) subject. I agree that the American people will expect Mr. Trump to exhibit a new moral fiber, but I'm not certain the drafters of the U.S. Constitution would have made MSW's distinction between constitutional and moral legitimacy -- or his assumption that moral legitimacy will coincide with his or Catholic values.