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The following excerpt firmly establishes that the founders and citizens who ratified the Constitution understood America to be subject to God's laws and to the Creator. Any pretense to the contrary was tacked onto our nation's essence as an inorganic and inauthentic afterthought - by activist jurists.

It was not something open to serious debate and therefor being subjec to God is implicit in every word of the Constitution:

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,---

It was not something open to serious debate and therefor being subjec to God is implicit in every word of the Constitution:

Luther Martin, a delegate to the Convention from Maryland, disagreed with you:

"The part of the system, which provides that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States, was adopted by a very great majority of the convention, and without much debate, -- however, there were some members so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a deity and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism."

The Framers were precise men who left precious little implied. They could have easily included a reference to God in the Preamble or some such place and chose not to do so.

-Eric