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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

Anti-Federalists
John Cotton
Jews
Baptists
Attacks On Jefferson
Locke
Declaration Of Independence
Colonial
Masschusetts
Plymouth Plantation
Condolences
First Amendment
Clergy Holding Office
Massachusetts Court
God'S Support Of America
Andrew White
William Williams
Patriots
Epitaphs
Connecticut

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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,...

New York Constitution of 1777

Declaring that "the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind," New York's Constitution...

George Washington General Orders October 18 1777

In celebrating victory, Washington always gives credit to God's intervention.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists

The Danbury Baptist Association was founded in 1790 as a coalition of about 26 churches in the Connecticut Valley. Connecticut...

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Canby

Jefferson praises Jesus but says those who believe in the "those moral precepts in which all religions concur" will go to heaven.

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