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Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Michael Novak
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: WorldwideFreedom; Founding Fathers; religious freedom
Type: Speech
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Religious justifications supporting freedom of religion are grounded in the Judeo-Christian principle that an individual's duty to worship God must be exercised freely and without coercion. Non-religious justifications for religious liberty emerge from the existence of a social contract by which the state guards freedom of conscience.