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2019-04-09 2019-04-09

The Founding Faith Archive

Early documents on religious freedom and the spiritual beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

Authors

Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Isaac Backus

Topics

Protestants
Anti-Federalists
Adams's Religious Beliefs
Samuel Hemphill
Washington'S Religious Beliefs
Religious Tyranny
God'S Support Of America
Silence Dogood
Charles Pinkney
Congregational
Presbyterians
Criticism Of Clergy
Establishments
Masschusetts
God's Support Of America
James Monroe
Trinity
Madison's Religious Beliefs
South Carolina
Presidential Addresses

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Founding Faith

“If asked to recommend the best book on this controversial topic, I would choose Founding Faith.”

- Joseph Ellis, author of American CreationFounding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Written later in his life, this Autobiography recalled the phase when he called himself a "Deist." Despite that appellation,...

George Washington General Orders November 05 1775

As part of Guy Falkes Day celebrations, Colonial soldiers had taken to burning effigies of the Pope. Washington was appalled...

George Washington General Orders July 09 1776

George Washington announces the new policy of providing military chaplains.

Letter from William Bradford to James Madison

In response to a note from his college classmate James Madison that persecution raged in Virginia, Bradford agrees that freedom...

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

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