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Buddhists are atheist. By your logic, any acknowledgement at all that there is a God is the exclusion of Buddhist faith by the Government.

That means we have to remove God from our money, our pledge, our courts, our classrooms, and even the supreme court itself. Heck even the Declaration of Independence is Unconstitutional because it clearly states that our inalienable rights are God-given.

The Declaration of Independence was written before the Constitution was. Additionally, it was written as a justification for an act which was patently illegal under the laws that up to that point had been in effect over the people who wrote it. The concept of it being Constitutional or unConstitutional is meaningless.

Further; it states that our inalienable rights are given by our Creator. It doesn't name the Christian or Jewish God specifically, and leaves open to individual interpretation as to who that creator was.

Buddhists don't believe in an incorporate God, but they do believe in a supernatural plane. References to "God" in the context of it's usages in things like "In God We Trust" and other such Government declarations have been expanded to cover that kind of thing, much as the BSA does when it says that Buddhists are eligible to be members and promise to do their "Duty to God" and "A Scout is Reverent".