Just as you are not authorized to pick and choose which sections of the Constitution you want to pay attention to. You keep harping on the "clear wording" of Article VI, but when someone points out the clear words of the first amendment - "Congress shall make no law..." - it just seems to go right over your head for some reason.
Just as you are not authorized to pick and choose which sections of the Constitution you want to pay attention to.
Wanna bet? - I pay 'attention to' topics that interest me.
You keep harping on the "clear wording" of Article VI, but when someone points out the clear words of the first amendment - "Congress shall make no law..." - it just seems to go right over your head for some reason.
No one knows exactly why the wording 'Congress' was specified for only the first. -- The best explanation, imo, is that it was used to pacify those religious fanatics of the day that insisted on the allowing of existing colonial government religions in the new state constitutions. It was a political dodge, a compromise, used to ease ratification.
Sure enough, in the course of time liberty prevailed, and state religions were abandoned.
- Then, with the ratification of the 14th, the point became moot. It's clear intent was that all states were required to comply with all of the BoR's.