What Jefferson and Madison would have thought about ‘rededicating’ the US to God
Speaker Mike Johnson's May 17 rally prayer echoes arguments Jefferson and Madison spent 50 years arguing against.

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Steven K. Green is the Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History at Willamette University where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Legal History, Jurisprudence, and Criminal Law in the College of Law, and Legal History and American Religious History in the College of Liberal Arts. In addition, Professor Green directs the interdisciplinary Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, one of Willamette’s Centers of Excellence.
Speaker Mike Johnson's May 17 rally prayer echoes arguments Jefferson and Madison spent 50 years arguing against.

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