Dec 10 2024 63 mins 36
In this episode, We explore religious liberty and the founders with Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, author of Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses, and Thomas Kidd, author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources
The First Amendment, National Constitution Center exhibit- Jane E. Calvert, Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson (2024)
- Thomas Kidd, Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (2022)
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses (2022)
- Thomas Kidd, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution (2010)
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz , God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (2009)
Letter From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, (August 18, 1790)
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