| FEL-262064-19 | Research Programs: Fellowships | Vincent Phillip Munoz | Religious Freedom and the American Founding: The Natural Right of Religious Liberty, the Original Meanings of the Religion Clauses, and Our 'First Freedom' Today | 1/1/2020 - 12/31/2020 | $60,000.00 | Vincent | Phillip | Munoz | | | | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame | IN | 46556-4635 | USA | 2018 | Political Theory | Fellowships | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Research and writing leading to publication of a book on the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause and the American founders’ views on religious liberty.
I propose to complete a book titled "Religious Freedom & The American Founding: The Natural Right of Religious Liberty, The Original Meanings of the Religion Clauses, and Our 'First Freedom' Today." The book will: (1) articulate the founders' natural rights political philosophy of religious liberty; (2) explain what we can and cannot determine about original meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clause, thereby revealing the limitations, complications, and difficulties of church-state originalism; and (3) construct a natural rights approach to the First Amendment's Religion Clauses. |