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Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone
UCLA Law Review Discourse
  • Samuel W. Calhoun, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
1-1-2009
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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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Samuel W. Calhoun, Getting the Framers Wrong: A response to Professor Geoffrey Stone, 57 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 1 (2009).