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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

Reason
Congregational
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Taxpayer Support Of Religion
Congress
Protestant
Colonies
Attacks On Jefferson
Massachusetts Bay
Pacifism
Abigail Adams
John Winthrop
Presbyterianism
Delaware
Free Market Of Religion
Samuel Hemphill
Deism
Jews
Joseph Priestley
Promoting Religion

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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

James Madison to James Monroe

Letter from James Madison to Reverend Jasper Adams

Massachusetts Constitution of 1780

It was the right as well as the duty" to worship "the Supreme Being." While some states were moving to end the practice of having...

George Washingtons Resignation Address to the Continental Co

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...

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