Lol. Imagine making a reductive statement to a vastly complicated topic to try and sound smart only to reveal how little you understand. On the internet no less!

That’s why I assumed it went down. No more trees.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/business/economy/chips-commerce-department.html

Yes, this article explains it slightly better…

It’s not a fab. It’s a research location.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/business/economy/chips-commerce-department.html

“The phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution. However, the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing a religion or interfering with the free exercise of religion.”

Jefferson letter:" I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

https://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall-html/

So they’re very closely related but don’t go around saying it’s in the Constitution because it isn’t.

In Mercia?!