First Amendment Conf. 2025

First Amendment Conf. 2025

Spring First Amendment Conference 2025

The Center for Constitutional Studies will hold its annual First Amendment Conference Thursday, March 6, 2025, on UVU campus in Orem, Utah, starting at 10 a.m.

Entitled A Revolution in Religious Freedom: From the Declaration to the First Amendment, the conference examines the robust tradition of religious liberty that grew out of the American Revolution and produced the First Amendment.
 

Sessions will focus on experiments of newly independent states with disestablishment and free exercise of religion, the theological significance of the Declaration of Independence, and the original meaning of the First Amendment.

 
Conference Schedule | Thursday, March 6, 2025 

9:30 a.m.  |  Check-in

10:00 a.m. |  Session 1 | CB101A

  • Panel Discussion | Religious Liberty and the American Revolution | Jane Calvert , director of John Dickinson Writings Project and Michael Breidenbach, associate professor of History, Ave Maria University

11:30 a.m. |  Session 2 | CB 101A

  • Debate | The Laws of Nature and Nature's God: Religion and the Declaration | Timothy Sandefur, vice president for legal affairs, Goldwater Institute, and Owen Anderson, professor in Partnership for Community Development, Arizona State University

12:45 p.m.  | Lunch Break

2:30 p.m. | Session 3 | CB 511

  • TBD

3:45 | Adjourn