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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

Catholic Church
Clergy Holding Office
Isaac Backus
James Monroe
Chaplains
Bill Of Rights
Massachusetts Court
Charles Pinkney
Roger Williams
Presbyterianism
Carolina
Anti-Federalists
William Strachey
William Bradford
Delaware
Nature Of Man
North Carolina
Criticism Of Clergy
Masschusetts
Andrew White

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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

George Washingtons Circular Letter of Farewell to the Army

The reference in the final paragraph to the "Divine Author of our blessed Religion" is sometimes thought to be an indication...

Letter from Jonas Phillips to President and Members of the Co

A Jew from Philadelphia writes to the Constitutional Convention urging them to reject a Pennsylvania law requiring that office...

the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruction of Peopl

James Madison to James Monroe

The Church at Jamestown

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