[billbears]

Ah, well there you go. Exactly where is the power the the SCOTUS uses to 'interpret' as you say, in the Constitution? Oh, I forgot, Chief Justice Marshall laying the groundwork of interpreting the document for another one of your heroes with that 'judicial review' malarky in 1803. You can't get it to say what you want, so you just fool around with the wording a bit. BTW, just because the Federal Government was not allowed to pick a religion, Jefferson himself strongly recommended the stateS pick their own official religions. But of course that was another one of those pesky state rights things that was thrown out the window over a hundred years ago.

[Non-Sequitur]

"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other the courts must decide on the operation of each." - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Marbury v. Madison

What is your problem with that?