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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

Charles Pinkney
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
General Assessment
Clergy
Madison's Religious Beliefs
Protestants
Anti-Federalists
Nature Of Man
Christian Nation
Attacks On Jefferson
Maryland
Reason
Epitaphs
Religious Test
Abigail Adams
Massachusetts
God's Support Of America
God'S Support Of America
Canada
Great Britian

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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

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...

Diary Entry of Christopher Columbus

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Delaware Constitution of 1776

Article 22 of the Constitution required officeholders to swear belief in the Trinity and the "divine inspiration" of the Bible.

Letter from George Washington to the Hebrew Congregations of

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