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Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone
A response to The World of the Framers – A Christian Nation? Professor Geoffrey Stone’s Essay, The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?, seeks to state “the truth about . . . what [the Framers] believed, and about what they aspired to when they created this nation.” Doing so will accomplish Professor Stone’s main objective, helping us to understand what “the Constitution allows” on a host of...
The Perils of Religious Passion: A Response to Professor Samuel Calhoun
A response to Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone Professor Samuel Calhoun insists that my thesis is “wrong,” that I “overstate” the evidence, present “a misleading view,” “distort” the authorities, argue by “assertion,” offer “no convincing corroborating evidence,” “mislead my readers,” and defend a “historically indefensible” position. In short, Professor Calhoun...