Antonin Scalia in America by Heart, by Sarah Palin

On Principles & Values: Founders engaged in explicitly religious official acts

The same week that Congress submitted the Establishment Clause as part of the Bill of Rights for ratification by the States, it enacted legislation providing for paid chaplains in the House and Senate.

The day after the First Amendment was proposed, the same Congress that had opposed it requested the President to proclaim "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed, by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many and signal favours of Almighty God."