VINCENT PHILLIP MUÑOZTocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science;

Concurrent Associate Professor of LawUniversity of Notre Dame

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ANDTHE AMERICAN FOUNDING

The 2020 Charles E. Test, M.D. ’37 Distinguished Lectures

James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

609-258-1122jmp.princeton.edu

All lectures take placefrom 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. inBowen Hall 222

Justice Scalia was Right in Smith: Why the Original Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause Does Not Require Religious Exemptions

Constructing the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses: A New Originalist Approach to Religious Liberty and the Separation of Church and State

Should We Adopt the Founders’ Natural Rights Constitutionalism of Religious Liberty?With commentary by: Donald L. Drakeman *88, Distinguished Research Professor, Program in Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame; Fellow in Health Management, University of Cambridge, and Michael P. Moreland, University Professor of Law and Religion; Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University

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Natural Rights and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses

Funded by the Bouton Law Lecture Fund

VINCENT PHILLIP MUÑOZ is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political

Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He

is the Founding Director of ND’s undergraduate minor in Constitutional Studies and also

directs Notre Dame’s Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life. Professor

Muñoz writes and teaches across the fields of constitutional law, American politics, and

political philosophy with a focus on religious liberty and the American Founding. His first

book, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (Cambridge University Press,

2009) won the Hubert Morken Award from the American Political Science Association for

the best publication on religion and politics in 2009 and 2010. His First Amendment church-

state case reader, Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents (Rowman & Littlefield) was first published in 2013 (revised edition, 2015) and

is being used at Notre Dame and other leading universities. In 2019, he joined the editorial

team of American Constitutional Law (11th ed., Routledge, 2019), the leading constitutional

law casebooks designed for undergraduate instruction. Professor Muñoz has been awarded a

National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support his current project, a scholarly

monograph on the natural right of religious liberty and the original meaning of the First

Amendment’s Religion Clauses. Articles from that project have appeared in American Political Science Review, The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Notre Dame Law Review, American Political Thought, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Journal of Constitutional Law. Professor

Muñoz has spoken at over 70 colleges and universities in the past several years. He received

his B.A. at Claremont McKenna College, his M.A. at Boston College, and his Ph.D. at Claremont

Graduate School.

DONALD L. DRAKEMAN *88 is Distinguished Research Professor in the Program

on Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a Fellow in Operations and

Technology Management at the University of Cambridge. He has published several books

on religion and law, including Church, State, and Original Intent (2010) and Church and State in American History (2020), and his works have been cited by the Supreme Courts of the United

States and the Philippines. Also the author of Why We Need the Humanities (2016), his next

book is The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory. Professor Drakeman is a Fellow of the Royal

Historical Society. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, his J.D. from Columbia

University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

MICHAEL P. MORELAND was appointed University Professor of Law and Religion and

Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion, and Public Policy at Villanova

University School of Law in 2017. He joined the Villanova faculty in 2006 and served as

Vice Dean from 2012 to 2015. His areas of teaching and research are torts, law and religion,

constitutional law, and bioethics. Following law school, Professor Moreland clerked for the

Honorable Paul J. Kelly Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was an associate

at Williams & Connolly L.L.P. in Washington, D.C., and served as Associate Director for

Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush. He received his B.A. in

Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from

Boston College, and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.