text: Your ignorance is showing. That was written in 1836 by Chief Justice Joseph Story. Islam was known as mohammedism in various spellings and muslims were known as mosselmen in 1802. At the Time of the Founding, Roman Catholicism was not in favor, as it was part of (though split from) the theocracy of the British Empire, one of the main reasons the Revolution was fought, since Protestants fled to the New World for religious freedom. It was the theocracy and pope and rule from Rome the Founders rejected, hence the quote from Justice Story in 1836 in his still revered in law schools Commentaries on the Constitution.