Cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks
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In my opinion, the plain language of the first amendment means that it cannot be incorporated by the 14th amendment, without further explicit language in a future amendment. Furthermore, it’s a limitation on congress only, and not a limit on the courts or the president.
I know that my personal opinion is a legally fringe idea, but since SCOTUS is keen to review the independent state legislature theory, maybe it will gain traction.
You're not wrong. Every state had an established religion at the time of the bill of rights, many officially declared it in their state constitution. The reason there are so many little states in New England is because groups kept marking off territory for their particular flavor of Protestantism. The point of that clause was to stop the feds from imposing a different religion on the states as it is doing now with progressivism.