Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses

Name: Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses
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Rating: 4.7 (13 reviews)
Author: Muñoz, Vincent Phillip

by Muñoz, Vincent Phillip

Nonfiction Religion Spirituality

4.7 (13)

345 pages~5.8 hr readPublished by The University of Chicago Press

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Perfect for you if...

You're interested in American constitutional history and want to move beyond modern culture-war interpretations to see what the sources actually say.
You study constitutional law or political philosophy and need rigorous primary-source scholarship on the Religion Clauses.
You're sceptical of both strict separationism and religious establishment arguments and want a careful historical alternative.

Maybe not for you if...

You're looking for a polemical defence of either secular progressivism or Christian nationalism. This book does neither.
You prefer narrative history or memoir to dense constitutional scholarship and legal reasoning.
You want a quick read. At 345 pages of dense analysis, this requires genuine engagement.

About this book

Vincent Phillip Muñoz examines how the Founders viewed religious liberty as an inalienable natural right. The book explores what this understanding means for church-state constitutional law, identifies what can and cannot be determined about the original meanings of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses, and develops a natural rights framework for interpreting religious liberty.

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