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How can this personal experience be put into context when it comes to in what ways American concepts of freedom has changed over time? I will focus on religious liberty and how it became one of the big issues when "creating America" and why it is still a "big .
issue" in today's America. I will first and foremost give a historical overview of how religious liberty was meant to be a part of the American society through the American Constitution of 1787. By the use of various other sources, I will analyze Thomas Jefferson's part in creating religious liberty and also what role the state of Virginia plays. .
Furthermore, I will discuss how religious liberty can be interpreted today, how it has changed from the days of the founding .
fathers and what problems "religious liberty" brings into contemporary America. As mentioned earlier, The United States is a highly religious country. One meets religion almost everywhere in the corners of America. The country's probably most well-known motto "In God We Trust" can be found on every dollar bill2.
It is folly to classify America as a Christian nation just because some religious authorities may call contemporary America one. Though created by men living in a society that was driven mostly by Christian morals, the American Constitution of 1787, as amended by the Bill of Rights, established a system of government in which religious liberty was to be protected. The very language of the Constitution and Bill of Rights suggest that, though created with Christian morals in the back of their minds, the framers of the Constitution intended America to be a nation free from any one religious authority. .
Historically, colonial America represented a sort of haven not only for those seeking to exercise this liberty, but those who wanted to benefit commercially. It is easy to view the founding fathers in a "cultural vacuum" and to ignore their political motives.