give Christians a favored place in the public square, even while protecting churches from governmental incursions. Yet here is what’s crucial. Just because two religious people make a contract doesn’t make the contract itself religious. And the founders’ idea of government by consent doesn’t include God in the contract. In fact, the legal terms they set forth in article 6 of the Constitution, forbidding any religious test, made belief in God like a sunroof on a car: an optional extra. A citizen might