Student Edition | Lesson 2: What Did the Founders Mean by “Religious Freedom?”

June 2, 2020

 


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Religious freedom for all was considered so important by the Founders that they considered it “the first freedom.”
— First Freedom Curriculum, Lesson 2

Lesson 2 considers how the American Founders understood religious freedom, a right they enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In acknowledging this first freedom, the Founders overcame differences of religion and ideology to provide constitutional guarantees for the religious freedom of everyone. Their action represents the most significant legal expression of religious freedom the world had ever known, and it is rightly considered a watershed moment in human history.