Subject: Re: Disconnected Politicians
Not exactly. The prohibition on state establishment of religion only applied to the Federal government. States were perfectly free to have official religions, and several of them did for quite some time after the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

It wasn't until the adoption of the 14th Amendment, and the eventual incorporation of the Bill of Rights to the states, that there was ever any federal constitutional restriction on state religions.

That is true. But I read recently there were movements in many states to drop the state religion that were fruitful before the 14th Amendment rolled around. I successfully resisted buying the book. :)