A limited government of the people, by the people, for the people
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”
Governmental authority and power are limited to the wall of consent given to them by the people those rights given to them by God. We will find the limits of this consent in our Constitution.
Our Founding Fathers rejected the divine right of kings. A radical departure that the nation’s sovereignty comes from God to Man to Government and NOT from God to King with Man out of this chain.
And let us not forget the relationship between one person and his/her God is inviolable from government interference. Thus, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This is why, IMHO, the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ overstates the the language of the Establishment Clause and exceeds the pronouncement in the Declaration of Independence.