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The current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, says he's a Republican, but columnist James Nelson makes the point, Johnson is a Christian nationalist.
The first constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press appeared in the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, and was considered by the drafters to be one of the "fruits of genuine democracy and historical experience."
The rate of change in the last two centuries makes the past feel much further away than it actually is, which inclines us to fawn over the future, and either patronize the past or ignore it altogether.
In 1772, when he was 21, Madison watched as Virginia arrested itinerant preachers for attacking the established church in the state. He was no foe of religion, but by the next year, he had begun to question whether established religion, which was common in the colonies, was good for society.