A careful reading and reflection upon Jefferson’s coinage of the phrase, “wall of separation” will reveal that he intended to assure the Danville Baptists, and indeed all Americans then and now that government would be barred from encroaching upon the preaching and teaching prerogatives and practices of “churches,” broadly construed. He did not intend it to isolate and insulate the workings of government from the religious impulses of the people.
He did not intend it to isolate and insulate the workings of government from the religious impulses of the people.
And that is if there are any laws regarding religion they must be made by the people of the states for that particular state.
Some how the first amendment has became known as separation of Church and state, but the law is only for congress, not the states, it is plainly telling Congress that they can not infringe on the rights of the states.
The 10th amendment makes it clear that the state or the people of that state which are the same make their own laws where not prohibited by the constitution.
The first amendment does not prohibit the state from doing anything, but only prohibits The congress of the united states.