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Some states already had official religions in their state constitutions, and I'm not sure how that was received. But it ultimately was ratified, and those provisions of the state constitutions were nullified.
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.
