The First Freedom, If You Can Keep It

Published November 16, 2016 10:51pm ET



Among all the uses conservatives can think of for a Trump executive order or Supreme Court nominee, there’s one, too often forgotten, that ought to come first. Religious freedom—scholarly and practical advocates say, in a nod to the founders—is not just the first freedom in the Bill of Rights but “the soul” of the American experiment.

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