Trying not to be obtuse but from this statement
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but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
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The autor determines they meant
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It had a higher object: to cut off forever every pretence of any alliance between church and state in the national government.
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I gotta say thats quite an interpretation. I doubt they meant to require such reading between the lines when they wrote that sucker. But then thats JMHO
A common man such as my self might think that
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but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
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means you cannot require office holders or groups in concert with the government to be of a certain relgion. Maybe I'm just too simple?
