It's interesting that law students should laugh at Christine O'Donnell for asking where in the Constitution do you find "separation of church and state". It's a simple matter to read the first amendment to see if separation of church and state is there. It's not. Arguing that it is requires that you to believe that what isn't there, is. It requires a replacement of reality with an alternate reality. It requires replacement of what is there with someone's interpretation of what is there. Such is the insanity of liberalism.
In 1947, Justice Hugo Black created the wall of separation between church and state out of a phrase in the later correspondence of Thomas Jefferson. He and four other justices on the Supreme Court imposed upon the country the doctrine that you can't pray in certain places, you can't mention the creator in certain circumstances even though both of these are restrictions on exercising religious freedom and restricting religious worship is specifically prohibited in the first amendment.
Christine O'Donnell was correct. You won't find separation of church and state in the Constitution. You have to dig through court decisions to find it. Court decisions do not amend the Constitution, they only interpret it and their interpretation can be re-interpreted.
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