It is not in our institutions. The power of the church is God's Spirit, and this is the moral authority with which it should speak and act on issues that matter. When good people hear the ring of right, and the authority of truth, they will follow. We are asked to make many decisions. We hear many arguments.
Some decisions are routine.
Some are common sense. Some are good business. But some have moral and ethical overtones, dimensions, and consequences. The British gained dominance over the French in the New World in 1763. The colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor, and the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.