You have to go through many machinations and pointing to alternate and separate writings to get to your idea of "separation" of church and state and the attendant eradication of all things related to God in the public square that those with your analysis aspire to.

All I have to do is READ the Constitution and it's as plain on the nose my face that there is no "separation" of church and state written into said document or in any amendment to it. All there is, is a sentence stating that the government shall not "establish" a national religion.

As stated previously the Constitution is not written in "metaphors" and "parables", but was carefully crafted and then debated and then ratified in law by the 1st Congressional Congress.

It is only the activists who insist on reading whatever meaning they wish to see into the Constitution, that was so simply and concisely crafted, in order to pursue agendas not consistent with the brilliant document of our founding, and thus bastardize the Constitution, and fail our nation and it's citizens.


(In my zeal I credit the 1st Congress of the United States with the passing of the Constituition, but that was actually the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; the 1st Congress of the United States passed the Amendments.)