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Religious Liberty thinkers
Clarence Thomas Associate Justice of the Supreme Court since 1991, an originalist who has written influential opinions on the Second Amendment, federalism and precedent. John Locke English philosopher whose Two Treatises of Government set out natural rights, consent of the governed and limited government. Thomas Jefferson Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president, a champion of limited government, religious freedom and agrarian republicanism. William Rehnquist Sixteenth Chief Justice of the United States, who led the Court from 1986 to 2005 and revived federalism limits on Congress.