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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

John Cotton
Christian America
Establishment
George Synder
Early Christianity
Presbyterianism
Vermont
Corruptions Of Christianity
Anne Hutchinson
Continental Congress
Adam Smith
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Presidential Religious Rhetoric
Establishments
Christopher Columbus
Mayflower Passengers
Benjamin Franklin
Church Of England
Illuminati
Samuel Adams

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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

George Washingtons Circular Letter of Farewell to the Army

The reference in the final paragraph to the "Divine Author of our blessed Religion" is sometimes thought to be an indication...

Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780

A New Version of the Lords Prayer

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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