Live at the National Constitution Center

How Religious Were the Founders?

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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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