19世紀の後千年王国説の台頭は「プロテスタントの道徳主義の一般的な文化を奨励し、それを奴隷制度廃止運動（現在の奴隷の自由）からインディアン移住への抗議、反戦運動と平和努力、女性の権利、南北戦争前後の禁酒運動に向けた一連の社会改革運動へと押し上げた」[10]。その結果、キリスト教婦人矯風会（英語版）（WCTU）などの組織の精神に象徴される女性の参政権を求める運動は、その時代の道徳主義に大いに推進された[11]。

20世紀後半および21世紀には、アメリカの道徳主義者たちは、堕胎ケアを犯罪化する運動を推進することに注力した[2]。また、道徳主義者は青色法（英語版）の維持に努力を注ぎ、労働者や労働組合の感覚に共鳴しようとする最初の日曜礼拝者（英語版）の信念に従い、日曜日の買い物（英語版）を抑制するような法律を支持している[12]。
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^ Archer, A. (2018). “The problem with moralism”. Ratio 31 (3): 342?350. doi:10.1111/rati.12168. 
^ a b Fullinwider, Robert K. (2005). “On Moralism”. Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2): 105?120. ISSN 0264-3758. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24354874. 
^ a b Ian MacLean, "Moralistes", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis, 1998), doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DA035-1.
^ (English) Daniel Bell. Routledge. (2002). p. 73. ISBN 9781134845576. https://archive.org/details/danielbell0000wate/page/73 
^ “Philosophy professor finds both Christians, secularists lacking” (English). Catholic News Service（英語版） (2011年5月6日). 2018年11月18日時点の ⇒オリジナルよりアーカイブ。2023年6月14日閲覧。 “In many essays, Taylor shows how this excessive moralism in both the Protestant and Catholic churches from the 17th century onward led to a "polite" Christian society where being polite was more important than being Christian.”
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^ Ryan, James Emmett (2009) (English). Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 51. ISBN 9780299231743. https://archive.org/details/imaginaryfriends00ryan. "Still operating at the margins of American religious discourse, Quaker civic moralism would see its legitimacy in the public sphere grow as increasing numbers of American citizens grew sympathetic with the Unionist and abolitionist causes." 
^ Brekus, Catherine A.; Gilpin, W. Clark (2011) (English). American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780807869147 
^ Delany, Sheila (2007) (English). Writing Woman: Sex, Class and Literature, Medieval and Modern. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 11. ISBN 9781556354434 
^ Steinfels, Peter (2013) (English). The Neoconservatives: The Origins of a Movement: With a New Foreword, From Dissent to Political Power. Simon and Schuster. p. 37. ISBN 9781476729701