Keywords
Conservatism
Liberalism
Religion and Politics
American Founding
Liberalism
Religion and Politics
American Founding
How to Cite
America Unfounded: The Emancipation of Nature’s God. (2020). The Political Science Reviewer, 43(2), 487-510. https://politicalsciencereviewer.wisc.edu/index.php/psr/article/view/611
Abstract
Whatever debate there may be over the question whether liberalism, the political philosophy of modernity, is hospitable to religion would seem to be settled by the opening paragraph of what may reasonably be considered liberalism’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, authored in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson on behalf of what was to be the new American people.