Judah Champion

Judah Champion (1749–1818) was a Connecticut clergyman and theological writer whose works engaged with the intersection of religious liberty and American political thought during the Revolutionary and early national periods. His treatises, particularly *Christian and Civil Liberty* and *Freedom Considered and Recommended*, articulated arguments for the separation of ecclesiastical and civil authority while defending Christian principles as foundational to republican virtue. Champion's writings contributed to broader evangelical and congregationalist perspectives on religious freedom that shaped American church-state discourse in the late eighteenth century.