[austinmark]

"No Separation" is right.

In the colonial charters, (the rough drafts of their state constitutions) ALL expressed a dependence on God for the maintenance of a moral civil order. Now, these were "independent" state governments with elected representative's, doing the will of the people. And they wrote their state constitutions with GOD in mind.

Thankfully, the Founding Fathers & Framers were WISE enough to LIMIT THE POWERS of the newly formed Federal Government by insisting that the STATES retain a major part of their sovereignty. Powers NOT assigned to the Federal Govt. remained with the states !!!

THIS INCLUDED RELIGION, specifically Christianity !!!

[kabar]

Some states even had a state religion after the Constitution was put in place. Levin does a good job of puncturing the myth about the "wall of separation between chuch and state" in his book, "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America.