Correct, and that is why Madison proposed two articles, one for Congress and one for the states. The first was adopted and became the First Amendment (after folding in some additional rights, like speech, press, assembly, and petition). The second was rejected. But there were no other proposals of separate amendments for Congress and the states, indicating to me, from a knowledge of how the Founders thought, that they were intended to cover both.

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There were some states that had state churches at that time, so they could not have meant to apply the establishment clause of the first amendment to states.

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