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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

James Monroe
Jesus Christ
Protestants
John Cotton
New Hampshire
Madison's Religious Beliefs
Plymouth
Quakers
Catholics
Pluralism
Toleration
William Bradford
William Strachey
Great Britain
Religious Tolerance
Congregational
Virginia Statute For Religious Freedom
Benjamin Rush
Massachusetts Court
Catholic Church

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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

the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruction of Peopl

Letter from George Washington to the Hebrew Congregations of

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...

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Hubbart

Though he later called himself a Deist, Franklin shows in this condolence note his belief In a soul and afterlife. "Why then...

James Madison to William Bradford

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