Rigby5
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Read the first amendment again. It says Congress shall pass no law. In my scenario it was the State of Michigan.
The claim you are making is a Supreme Court decision.
The Separation of Church and State: Everson v. Board of Education - FindLaw
In 1947, the Supreme Court was asked to decide just how separate our federal government needed to be from religious institutions. In Everson v. Board of Education, a closely divided Supreme Court decided a New Jersey program that helped children in Catholic schools did not violate the First...supreme.findlaw.com
You object to the Supreme Court making law and creating rights out of thin air. You want the originality Constitution. So let’s go for it. No problem with a State establishing a religion. It isn’t Congress.
There originally were state religions, line Penn's Sylvania.
But clearly that infringes on the inherent rights of those of other religions, so is not legal after the 14th amendment.
The original constitution was wrong because the states originally considered themselves endowed with Divine Right. We rebelled from England because we do not believe in Divine Right. So then states can't be allowed to violate individual rights any more than the feds.