Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims]; and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Jefferson and others saw State matters and Federal matters as separate issues, something that is no longer the case in any way, shape or form, since all State matters are now subject to the scrutiny of Federal courts no matter what the will of the people in a particular State may be.
>> no matter what the will of the people in a particular State may be.
That’s always been the nature of the collective state-establishments America’s founders tried to protect themselves and their progeny from.
“COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS _______”?
Jefferson naively believed in the morality of the enlightened majority.
A few decades later, Tocqueville recognized the TYRANNY of the [indoctrinated] majority.
And the experiment wobbles along...