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

"The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitutional law, uncovering what we can and cannot determine about the original meanings of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and constructing a natural rights jurisprudence of religious liberty."--

About the author

Vincent PhillipMuñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He is the founding director of Notre Dame's Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government. His scholarship has been cited multiple times in church-state Supreme Court opinions, most recently by Justice Alito in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021) and by both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Thomas in Espinoza v. Montana (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Phillip Munoz, Vincent Phillip Muñoz
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780226821443
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82144-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Religious freedom / freedom of worship