But [Dr. Rush's Peace Office proposal] also called for free schools for youth “carefully instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in the doctrines of a religion of some kind”, distributing free Bibles at public expense, and putting a sign over the door of the War Department proclaiming “An office for butchering the human species”.

Would this not have been blatantly unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment? Or, to put it another way, if this had actually been implemented and eventually upheld by SCOTUS, would this not have fundamentally altered the course of First Amendment jurisprudence, not to mention the way we look at the church-state relationship (or lack thereof) today?