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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

Tom Paine
Adams's Religious Beliefs
Canada
New Hampshire
Locke
Condolences
Christian America
John Winthrop
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Religious Test
Nature Of God
John Cotton
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Puritans
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Virginia Statute For Religious Freedom
Clergy
Religious Tyranny
Ratification

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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 James Madison to James Monroe

In the third paragraph, Madison updates his friend James Monroe about the "general assessment," Patrick Henry's proposal to tax...

Federal Veto of State Laws on Religion House Debate

Few people remember that James Madison wanted to give Congress the ability to veto state laws that harmed religious freedom....

Letter from James Madison to Reverend Adams

As an old man, James Madison believed that the quality and quantity of religious practice had grown when government support of...

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

Message from John Adams to the Officers of the First Brigade

In this letter Adams declares point blank that, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly...

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