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[–] Joe_McCarthy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do you have a source handy for the Founders' fear of a national church giving power to a foreign government? The British were indeed the only threat there and the schisms among revolutionaries and loyalists badly weakened Anglicanism in the US as it was. By the time the Bill of Rights was enacted American Anglicanism had broken with the Church of England to conform with republican values.

And while you're correct we weren't diverse in the sense we are today the religious fault lines were STRONGER in those days than today. Congregationalists were warmed over Puritans. That they and Anglicans were both Protestants is a rather trivial fact in the face of the long history of conflict and hostility between them.

The long and short of it is that a Puritan church was not going to be imposed on Southern states or New Yorkers and ditto for Anglicanism on New Englanders. To make the attempt would have led to armed conflict or at the very least severe and needless strains on social cohesion in the young country with plenty of other problems on its plate as it was.

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[–] fuck_communism 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Do you have a source handy

No, and I'm too lazy to get one. Check the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History. It's concise yet reasonably thorough.

Congregationalists were warmed over Puritans

And Puritans were essentially Anglicans who thought The Church was still "too Catholic," they recognized Anglicanism as a "true religion" (unlike Catholicism), but felt it needed further reform.

a Puritan church was not going to be imposed on Southern states or New Yorkers and ditto for Anglicanism on New Englanders

True, but that was not the primary motive behind the Establishment Clause at the time of writing, it's worth noting that the last phrase in Article 6 is "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States," which, I think (opinion), alludes more to your point than to the future establishment clause.