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continuing from the preceding post

If a law does not look respecting an establishment of religion by just reading it without measuring its effect, or to put that differently, if it is possible to imagine at pure theoretical level that no effect of respect reaches an establishment of religion through that law then that law is not violating the establishment clause, because it is not respecting an establishment of religion, regardless of how much it would cause an establishment of religion to be respected. On the other hand, if by just reading a law without measuring its effect it looks respecting an establishment of religion then it would be  violating the establishment clause regardless of how little the respect it would add to an establishment of religion (I am writing this assuming there is no problem with the "Congress shall make no law" as implying Congress shall not present a bill because I am not comfortably at that stage yet).