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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

Establishments
New Hampshire
Quakers
Presbyterianism
Clergy Holding Office
Continental Congress
Puritans
Religious Test
Baptists
Tom Paine
Bible
Religious Persecution
France
Locke
Plymouth
James Madison
Trinity
Condolences
Persecution
Anne Hutchinson

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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

Veto Message on Act Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant E

Congress passed legislation providing special legal protections to the Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Madison vetoed...

Franklin wrote this when he was about 22.

Letter from George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in N

For most of the Colonial era, "tolerance" meant tolerance for different denominations of Christians, and sometimes Catholics....

Autobiography of James Madison

Madison sketched a thin autobiography in response to a request from a would-be biographer. He writes in third person. He is over...

Letter from John Admas to Thomas Jefferson

Adams bristles as the Calvinist notion that a man's fate is determined by the grace of God instead of good works. He rejects...

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