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The Constitutional Roots of American Global Leadership on Religious Freedom

March 5, 2019
Allen D. Hertzke

Forged out of a century and a half struggle against religious persecution in the colonies, the American constitutional heritage codified an innovative break from centuries of Western practice.  Both the First Amendment and state constitutional provisions bar religious establishments and protect religious free exercise from government infringement.  These two provisions work in tandem.   Freed from […]

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