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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 Winthrop
Corruption Of Christianity
New Jersey
Unitarians
Pennsylvania
Constitutional Convention
Religious Tyranny
Establishments
John Adams
James Monroe
North Carolina
Patrick Henry
Silence Dogood
Tom Paine
Rhode Island
Religious Tolerance
Northwest Territory
Samuel Adams
Episcopalians
Adams-Jefferson Letters

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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

A Memoir of the Life and Times of Isaac Backus

Isaac Backus was one of the most important Baptist leaders of the revolutionary era. He argued fervently against persecution...

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

Who Are the Best Keepers of the Peoples Liberties

In what was otherwise a political polemic, Madison writes a few sentences (the 7th paragraph) that express a personal belief...

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...

Articles of Confederation

This is the charter that organized the new nation prior to the ratification of the Constitution. Note the final paragraph....

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