In 2012, the GOP party platform mentioned “religious freedom” six times. Its section on the First Amendment was titled “The First Amendment: The Foresight of Our Founders to Protect Religious Freedom.”

In 2016, religious freedom was again used six times, only this time it was joined by four mentions of “religious liberty,” and the First Amendment section was renamed “The First Amendment: Religious Liberty.”

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“You might think of a regime of religious freedom as one in which the government is studiously neutral, whereas a regime of liberty would be one in which people are free to practice their own religion to the maximum possible extent,” explained Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.