 Clearly, the First Amendment's prohibition on the government establishing a religion didn't apply to the states, and it was known. You had the Supreme Court case of Barron v. City of Baltimore, where the Supreme Court even came in and said, yes, the Bill of Rights does not apply to the states. But I say all that to say that the framers most probably would have held that if a state had passed an Alien and Sedition Act and said that you cannot say anything malicious against the state government...