Matthew P. Cavedon

Matthew Cavedon is the Robert Pool Fellow in Law and Religion at Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Previously a criminal defense attorney in Gainesville, GA, he graduated from Emory University in 2015 with a law degree and masters of theological studies.

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English imperial adventurism did not begin with Alexander. It began with [King] Henry [VII] skirting or directly contradicting Inter caetera. Henry would not be the last Englishman to do so.

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Matthew P. Cavedon, "Did Pope Alexander VI Authorize England’s Colonization of North America?," Doctrine of Discovery Project (17 March 2023), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/canopy-series-pope/.

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