No state will keep itself limited, no constitution or ideology is sufficient to that task, unless there is a body of people separated from the nation that is willing to say “No” to the state’s claims on their loyalties.
—Against The Nations, Stanley Hauerwas, p.123

The key phrase in this warning is “no constitution or ideology is sufficient to that task”.  The task  is “keeping itself limited” ,  and NO constitution or ideology,  not “separation of Church and State” or “we hold these truths to be self-evident” , or even that these are actually “truths”,  at the level of the truths we exist to embody.  As creative and historically important as the Consititution is,  it is man-made and not to be set alongside either scripture or God’s People the Church.  We can even celebrate its birth and conception and the advancements in government that ensued from it,  but it is not what we are about.  We have a much more important task,  and call.  (What?  Is that unpatriotic?  I guess if patriotism means God and Country on equal footing,  and loosing country is tantamount to losing God,  then yes.  It is thoroughly unpatriotic,  becuase it is misplaced loyalty.

The state becomes the only means we have to perform those functions that liberal values and strategies destroy. There is therefore a kind of monism working its way out in America. Though it is less immediately coercive than that of the Soviet Union, it is the monism of the freedom of the individual. The Russian lives in a social system that claims to achieve freedom by falsely investing all authority in the power of the Party; the American lives in a social system that tries to insure freedom by trying to insure that each individual can be his or her own tyrant.
—Against The Nations , Stanley Hauerwas,  p. 125

Obviously,  this essay was written pre-USSRcollapse,   but the onus remains on American Christians and our churches to resist the “temptations” and ensnarements of individualism,  which has been thouroughly ingested into the life of the churches,  turning them into anything but alternative.  Religious,  maybe even “Progressively religious”,  but nonetheless individualistic,  which is a severe castration of the purpose of the “calling forth of a people” to represent the body of Christ in the world.