Steven D. Smith is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. His recent publications include Pagans and Christians in the City (Eerdmans 2018) and The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Harvard 2014).
In Religious Liberty and the American Founding, Phillip Munoz believes that there is a kind of natural rights logic that leads to his minimalist version of religious freedom. His central premise is that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the "natural rights" logic that was prevalent in the Founding period; and he tries to follow this logic to its conclusions, come hell or high water.
Date posted: 2022-11-08