"- § 1841. The remaining part of the clause declares, that "no religious test shall ever be required, as a qualification to any office or public trust, under the United States."
This clause is not introduced merely for the purpose of satisfying the scruples of many respectable persons, who feel an invincible repugnance to any religious test, or affirmation. It had a higher object; to cut off for ever every pretence of any alliance between church and state in the national government. The framers of the constitution were fully sensible of the dangers from this source, marked out in the history of other ages and countries; and not wholly unknown to our own.
The framers never considered that the Supremes would/could generate a climate where whatever THEY said was law.. Currently whatever 5 of the Supremes say is law, is the law.. A Coup D'ambulance chaser.. or Coup D'Shyster...