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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

Colonial
Presidential Religious Rhetoric
Religious Tolerance
Epitaphs
Separation Of Church And State
General Assessment
Anti-Federalists
Isaac Backus
Oaths
Jews
William Strachey
George Whitefield
Quebec Act
Calvin
Masons
Colonies
Declaration Of Independence
Vermont
Delaware Congress
Clergy Holding Office

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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

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush

In 1803, Jefferson had hoped that someone other than himself write a book on the merits of Christianity. He wrote a "Syllabus...

Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bra

North Carolina Constitution of 1776

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.

Benjamin Franklins Request for Prayers at the Constitutional

The Constitutional Convention had been meeting for five weeks, and had hit a perilous deadlock. The large states were insisting...

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