United States Constitution (1787) contained religious references:
<Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted)...> 1787US002
<Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.> 1787US003
The Oath of Office for both the U.S. Senators, usually administered by the Vice-President, and the U.S. Representatives, administered by the Speaker of the House, states:
<I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.> 1787US004
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Endnotes:
1787US002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Constitution, September 17, 1787, Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2. Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., ed., American Historical Documents 1000-1904 (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, The Harvard Classics, 1910), Vol. 43, p. 196. "Our Christian Heritage," Letter form Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 4.
1787US003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Constitution, September 17, 1787. Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., ed., American Historical Documents 1000-1904 (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, The Harvard Classics, 1910), Vol. 43, p. 205. Gary DeMar, God and Government-A Biblical and Historical Study (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Press, 1982), pp. 163, 172. "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 4.
1787US004. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Constitution, September 17, 1787. The Oath of Office for both the U.S. Senators and the U.S. Representatives. Donald A. Ritchie, The Young Oxford Companion to the Congress of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 137.