-How does the First Amendment phrase its protections of religion?

The Constitution erects "a wall of separation between church and state."

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."


"Nor shall any religious test be required for any office of faith or trust under the federal government."


"All men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."


-What does the religion clause of the First Amendment actually say?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."


The Constitution erects "a wall of separation between church and state."


"Nor shall any religious test be required for any office of faith or trust under the federal government."


In order to preserve morality and good order, all communities shall provide "public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality."