Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone

Calhoun, Samuel Wolfe

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Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone

Samuel Wolfe Calhoun

Washington and Lee University - School of Law

2009

UCLA Law Review, Discourse 1, Vol. 57, p. 1, 2009
Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. No. 2010-07

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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. Regretably, 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.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 15

Keywords: Constitution, Public Policy issues, Framers, Religion v. State

JEL Classification: K10, K19, K40

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Date posted: September 6, 2010

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Calhoun, Samuel Wolfe, Getting the Framers Wrong: A Response to Professor Geoffrey Stone (2009). UCLA Law Review, Discourse 1, Vol. 57, p. 1, 2009; Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. No. 2010-07. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1672698

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Washington and Lee University - School of Law ( email )

Lexington, VA 24450
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