The Revised Version of American Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Steven Smith

Summary: <a href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2014/06/16/the-revised-version-of-american-religious-freedom-a-conversation-with-steven-smith/"></a>This next episode of Liberty Law Talk is with Steven Smith on his new book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Our conversation explores Smith's challenge to the dominant academic narrative that the Supreme Court's mid-twentieth century decisions imposing secular neutrality vindicated the religion clauses of the First Amendment. In this version, their essence was to secure a government free of religion, tout court. But what if the First Amendment's original public meaning and subsequent practice reflected a very different essence?<br> <br> Our conversation begins with the history of the ratification of the First Amendment. What do we make of…<a class="moretag" href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2014/06/16/the-revised-version-of-american-religious-freedom-a-conversation-with-steven-smith/">Read More</a>