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Join our 2026 James Madison Fellow, Dr. John Ragosta for our Inaugural Annual Madison Lecture. Dr. Ragosta will explore how James Madison and his colleague Thomas Jefferson were leading advocates of religious freedom, including a strict separation of church and state. They both had political and philosophical reasons for advocating religious freedom. But Madison’s reverential tone in discussing the topic is noteworthy, suggesting a firm religious reason to insist on freedom of conscience.