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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

Early Christianity
Congress
Madison'S Religious Beliefs
Bible
Memorial And Remonstrance
Religious Persecution
Clergy
Religious Tests
Masons
Christian State
Heaven
Danbury Baptists
Religious Tolerance
Locke
Anne Hutchinson
Jefferson'S Religious Beliefs
Condolences
Conscientious Objectors
Deism
Adam Smith

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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

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

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...

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr Thomas Cooper

Jefferson believed Unitarianism would become the dominant religion. He also explains why he has no professor of divinity at...

William Willamss Letter

In the American Mercury, William Williams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Connecticut, complains about the...

Vermont Constitution of 1786

By 1786, states were beginning to give up the stated preference for Christianity. Vermont here provides full freedom of religion...

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