Title: The religious roots of the First Amendment
Description: Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as the thinkers who spread it.
Subjects: Protestantism, Christianity and law, Influence, Christianity, United States, Church history, History, Constitutional amendments, united states, Religion and law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights