References to God are made in four places in the Declaration of Independence. The drafters of the Declaration would refer to the “God of nature” and the inalienable rights of the “Creator”, recognizing that natural rights were only a result of the Godhead (Declaration of Independence, Greene, p. 298). However, most Americans were not mere deists; they were a Christian people who believed in an active God. Therefore in the conclusion the Declaration refers to the “Supreme Judge” and “Divine Providence” (Declaration of Independence, Greene, p. 300). This belief in religion, which at the time was primarily Protestant Calvinism, explains the method of civil resistance pursued in the North