How do the principles expressed in clauses 38-40 apply to the united states today

Deputy Solicitor General Bator argued the cause for the United States as amicus ... and Clarine Nardi Riddle; [472 U.S. 38, 40] for the Center for Judicial Studies by the Establishment Clause did not bar the States from establishing a religion. ... of four judges who expressed the opinion that the full courtshould reconsider ...

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.