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Douglas Laycock

Religious Liberty Is a Secular Liberal Value

Douglas Laycock
Date
2015
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Douglas Laycock, Religious Liberty Is a Secular Liberal Value, in Free to Serve: Protecting the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations, Brazos Press, 160–163 (2015).
UVA Law Faculty Affiliations
Douglas Laycock
Constitutional Law and Legal History
Center for the First Amendment
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