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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

Clergy Holding Office
Jefferson's Religious Beliefs
Reason
Heaven
France
Isaac Backus
Masons
Oaths
Adam Smith
Promoting Religion
Plymouth
Constitutional Convention
Repentance
Church Of England
Trinity
Plymouth Plantation
Religious Freedom
Connecticut
Colonies
Pilgrims

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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 Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity Pleasure and Pain

He wrote this detailed theological statement this when he was 19, in London.

Letter from William Bradford to James Madison

In response to a note from his college classmate James Madison that persecution raged in Virginia, Bradford agrees that freedom...

Amendments Offered in Congress by James Madison

James Madison initially argued that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary. But in his first race for Congress, he promised he would...

The Body of Liberties of the Massachusets Collonie in New En

Excerpts of the early Puritan laws related to religion

To the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec

Just five days after complaining that Britain, through the Quebec Act, was giving too much freedom to Canadian Catholics, the...

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