Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. - Gore Vidal

Well, the Constitution has not yet been pregnant.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.