Spirit of Nirvana
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The Seperation of Church and State is found in the establishment clause, which is not part of the Constitution but part of the First Ammendment.
The founders assumed that defining the state as secular would be pointless because of the nature of the revolution and the colonizatin of America.
That nature was to flee religious tyranny and state-enforced religious law.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The founders assumed that defining the state as secular would be pointless because of the nature of the revolution and the colonizatin of America.
That nature was to flee religious tyranny and state-enforced religious law.