`  :A theocracy would be a government where the leadership and the spiritual leaders are the same people. I think the argument that the GOP or Constitution Party want to establish a theocracy is extremely weak. Religion has played an integral role in American law and governance since day one. If we use your overly broad definition of a theocracy, then America's been one since day one.  ::`` in the 1822 case of Updegraph v. the Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania]: “The constitution of the United States has made no alteration, nor in the great body of the laws which was an incorporation of the common law doctrine of Christianity, as suited to the condition of the colony, and without which no free government can long exist…. If Christianity was abolished, all false oaths, all tests by oath in the common form by the book, would cease to be indictable as perjury.”  :In a Theocracy, the courts would look to this passage or that passage of scripture for guidance, but the mainstream Christian right has no desire to ban toleration of minority religions under the free exercise clause. Secondly, even the most irreligious founders were influenced by Christian morality. The only thing the Establishment Clause was intended to do was to prevent Congress from require adherence to a particular theology.  :The U.S. from my vantage point is more likely headed towards the establishment of a formal Soviet-style atheistic state before it would ever become a theocracy. Secularists seem to forget they have been forcing their decadent morality upon Christians for over 40 years. It is nothing but shear bigotry to accuse Christians of wanting to establish a theocracy as far as I am concerned. For secularists, anything less than an atheistic, hedonistic state is a theocracy.  `