...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. The Constitution contained one explicit reference to religion: the Article VI ...

All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This ...

Stated more precisely, the Oaths Clause, along with the president’s oath of office prescribed in Article II, Section 1, Clause 8, is the practiced mechanism to uphold the Constitution’s ...