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The constitution explicitly establishes that which cannot be breached by any government entity.

Many of our laws today are unconstitutional. Its just that no one cares to challenge them.
61 Cornpone

The constitution constrains the federal government to specific enumerated powers. Anything else it leaves to the states and the people.

One of the things left to the states: the power to establish state sponsored religions.
68 secretagent

Many states have written into their constitutions, a bill of rights that were very similar to the US constitution. This is not redundancy.

Originally, most of the items in the US bill of rights only restricted the US Congress. If you read it carefully, you will see that the 2nd amendment gives all of us the right to bear arms.
But the first amendment prohibits only Congress, not the states, from abridging religion and free speech.
Supposedly that all changed after the 14th amendment.
95 Dan Evans

True, our Constitution, in Art VI, explicitly establishes that it cannot be breached by any government entity. -- Fed/State or local, ALL officials are pledged to support the US Constitution and its Amendments as the supreme Law of the Land.

"Congress shall make no law" meant what it said, but did not mean that only Congress was so restricted. The 10th made clear that States were also prohibited powers, among them the power to infringe on peoples RKBA's.

After the civil war, southern States were denying freed slaves the RKBA's, under the pretense that the BOR's did not apply. The 14th was ratified to end that controversy.