Should America Return to the Natural Law Views of the Founding?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He directs Notre Dame’s Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life. Dr. Muñoz is the author of God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson, which won the American Political Science Association’s award for best publication on religion and politics. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support his current project, a scholarly monograph on the natural right of religious liberty and the original meaning of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses. Dr. Muñoz received his BA at Claremont McKenna College, his MA at Boston College, and his PhD at Claremont Graduate School.

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, a PhL from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas.