Many were drawn to the on-line symposium The First Amendment and Religious Liberty, featuring chapters from the just published Cambridge Companion of the same name. I especially benefited from essays by Donald Drakeman and Marc DeGirolami. But missing was a chapter on the big event coming this autumn in the U.S. Supreme Court, when the […]
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Faith, Just War, and the American Revolution
The problem of legitimate resistance to tyranny – how a people should resist a tyrant – is perennial. Scholars have recently called into question that which was once considered established beyond doubt – that the Revolution and American independence were both necessary and good. Americans today may indeed face challenges similar to those of colonial […]
Thomas Jefferson at Mizzou
On a bench in the quad a few yards away from the main administration building at Mizzou sits a statue of Thomas Jefferson, lap desk perched on his knee, drafting the Declaration of Independence. The statue was donated to the university in 2001 by the MU Jefferson Club and has been the subject of controversy […]
Federalism, State Constitutionalism, and School Choice in the Supreme Court
In 2018, the Montana Supreme Court struck down a state law granting taxpayers a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to organizations that funded tuition scholarships for students attending private schools, whether secular or religious. The Montana justices held that this program violated Article X, section 6 of the Montana Constitution, which prohibited the use of […]
Reason, Religion, and Truth
Sometime in the last few years, for the first time in American history, it became respectable to publicly oppose religious liberty and its overarching value in our political order. It is a remarkable, and portentous, turn. Religious liberty has always been an axiom of our political culture. Americans long regarded it not only as the […]
