Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone

Authors

Samuel W. Calhoun, Washington and Lee University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Title

UCLA Law Review Discourse

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

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 controversial public policy issues. Regrettably, Professor Stone’s effort is unsuccessful. Although he clearly tried to be fair in his historical account, the Essay ultimately presents a misleading view of the Framers’ perspective on the proper relationship between religion and the state.

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Recommended Citation

Samuel W. Calhoun, Getting the Framers Wrong: A response to Professor Geoffrey Stone, 57 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 1 (2009).