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The Founders and Religious Liberty with Phillip Muñoz | BRI Scholar Talks

How did the American founders understand religious liberty? To explore this question, Dr. Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Notre Dame, joins BRI Senior Fellow Tony Williams. Together they unpack the originalist understanding of the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause and discuss what religious liberty meant to those who wrote the Constitution. What were the main common founding understandings of religious liberty? What were some areas of disagreement among the founders on religious liberty?


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