7.13 America's Autobiography: James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments with Susan Laehn

Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, is a podcast hosted by academics, experts, and guests of the McConnell Center, who will walk you through great texts in human history. Designed to accompany your own reading of the text, Season Seven focuses on exploring the McConnell Center's newest publication, America's Autobiography: Key Documents that Tell Our Story. For this episode, Susan Laehn joins to talk about James Madison's 1785 petition Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments . Susan Laehn is adjunct professor of political science at Iowa State University. She is co-editor of Welcoming the Other: Student, Stranger, and Divine (Lexington Books, 2021), and she has published in Social Science Quarterly and Political Research Quarterly. Her teaching and research interests include ancient and modern political theory, ethics and politics, applied political theory, American government, and research methods. . ABOUT THE MCCONNELL CENTER Founded in 1991, the non-partisan McConnell Center at the University of Louisville seeks to identify, recruit and nurture Kentucky's next generation of great leaders. Our core principles—leadership, scholarship and service—guide us as we (1) prepare top undergraduate students to become future leaders; (2) offer civic education programs for teachers, students and the public; and (3) conduct strategic leadership development for the U.S. Army. Learn more regarding the work of The McConnell Center: www.mcconnellcenter.org