Religion was mentioned very little in the Constitution, although the document is laced with Biblical quotes and ideas. As a matter of fact, the Bible is quoted in the Constitution four times more often than any other source. The reason religion is mentioned so sparsely is that the State Governments were to have jurisdiction over religion. Some of those gentlemen who wrote the U.S. Constitution went back to their home states afterward and included many references to religion in the new State Constitutions they drafted. As a matter of fact, all 50 states have acknowledgments of God in the preambles to their respective Constitutions.
State mottoes indicate that religion was embraced by state governments.
There are many others. After the South lost the Civil War, the Federal Government began to render the State Constitutions less significant and to usurp the authority of the State governments. In much the same way, the United Nations, aided by Executive Orders from Bill Clinton and even George Bush, are eroding the significance of the United States Constitution. Men like Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams resisted the U.S. Constitution until the Bill of Rights was in place to handcuff the power of the Federal Government. France tried to build a democracy on the New Age idea that man is basically good.