The framers largely held that religious free exercise is a natural right that belongs to all Americans. An example of the framer’s view of natural law can be found in Article II of Delaware’s 1776 Declaration of Rights, “that all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings” (The American Political Science Review 2016). Similar natural rights dialectal can be found in numerous of the early state constitutions, such as George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, Rhode Island. “All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship,’ Washington writes, ‘It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the
