The Campaign against Religious Liberty

Date

2016

Citation

Douglas Laycock, The Campaign against Religious Liberty, in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, Oxford University Press, 231–255 (2016).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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