Religious Liberty and the American Founding

An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom.   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.   Drawing on early state constitutions,