The United States of America and Saudi Arabia are two very different states. Even a discursive look would likely lead a person to see some plain differences: one is a western nation, the other a middle-eastern one; one is a very large nation, the other a much smaller; one is surrounded by many other types of states, the other shares very few borders. And while these are true differences between the two states, the differences go much deeper. By looking at the constitutions of Saudi Arabia and the United States, we see that the overall difference is that the state of Saudi Arabia is legally developed to arbiter and apply religious law, while the U.S.’s government was developed and established for exclusively secular purposes. In reviewing