Elitist advocates of top-down government (in church or state) --- who think they have the right to tell others what to do and what to believe -- will NEVER allow the ordinary peons ("we the people") to call the shots ("form a more perfect union") if they can possibly help it.
It is for that reason that the Framers blocked them with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and set our secular government up according to the republican "we-the-people/bottoms up" pattern as layed out in the New Testament.
was it layed out in the new testament?. Jesus did told his disciples to Pray alone.