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Religious Liberty at the Founding

We the People

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The Inalienability of Natural Rights

Inalienability had to do with the basic social contract. Individuals gave up many of their natural rights in exchange for a more secure protection of what was left. But there were certain things you had no right to give up, and religious conscience was one of them. This doesn't tell us anything about what the duty to God actually constitutes.

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