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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

Greatness Of Christianity
Congress
Catholic Church
Jefferson'S Religious Beliefs
U.S. Constitution
Continental Army
Masschusetts
Abigail Adams
Anne Hutchinson
John Locke
New Plymouth
Massachusetts
Locke
Presbyterianism
Plymouth Plantation
Vermont
Quebec Act
Condolences
Madison'S Religious Beliefs
Protestant

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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...

Letter from 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...

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

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...

George Washington General Orders March 22 1783

Washington orders his soldiers to observe the Sabbath.

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