Rather than viewing liberty and equality as distinct or even competing constitutional principles, Yoshino proposed that they ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, the “shot heard round the world” began the American Revolution. As we ...

One of the great blessings of liberty we enjoy in our country is freedom of religion. The Founding Fathers of our nation ...

But questions about religious freedom can be touchy, and they speak to the very meaning of the U.S. Constitution. That Constitution, in the first words of the First Amendment, ...

Constitution protects freedom from religion. Nearly 40% of our nation’s population now check the “None” square when asked what religion they prefer, including myself.

Mike Pence said yesterday on Fox Business that the First Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t provide “freedom from religion,” the idea that people shouldn’t have other people’s ...

Indeed, while the First Amendment to the Constitution affirms freedom of religion, it has erroneously been misconstrued as freedom from religion. Advertisement Rest assured, ...

Freedom of religion is of course important. It’s one of our nation’s fundamental values — and that’s why the First Amendment of the Constitution already protects it. Religious liberty ...

“Religious Liberty and the Founding of America” is a collection of historic documents tracing the evolution of language on religion that would become the First Amendment. Nine of the original 13 ...

Freedom of religion and freedom from it are two sides of the same coin; we cannot enjoy one without the other. Separation of church and state is a concept that our framers understood well.

The Constitution actually guarantees that there will be no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. If I'm a Buddhist, I have the freedom not to be a ...