Not true. Congress was stopped from making laws " -- respecting an establishment of religion, -- "; -- but Article VI said that " -- no religious test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States -- ". Government religions are a de facto religious test.
That law only applies to the national government. If you look at a number of early State constitutions, there are direct references to a Christian God therein.
That law only applies to the national government.
Article VI "only applies to the national government?" The text clearly says otherwise. -- Do you make that flat unsupported claim for every clause in the Constitution that prohibits state powers, or infringements on individual rights?
If you look at a number of early State constitutions, there are direct references to a Christian God therein.
Yep quite a few of the original States had state supported religions, relics of the colonial era. They soon died away. - And the experience of the Mormons in Utah finished the idea of having State supported religions in the USA.