Read the excerpt from the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. At the time it was written, this clause originally applied to

When the First Amendment was written, it restricted Congress and the federal government, not state or local governments. The clause was later applied to state and local governments through the Fourteenth Amendment. So the correct choice is “federal law only.”

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