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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

Canada
Persecution
Massachusetts
John Cotton
Delaware
Jews
Masschusetts
First Amendment
North Carolina
John Locke
Locke
Madison's Religious Beliefs
Samuel Hemphill
Northwest Territory
Clergy
Madison'S Religious Beliefs
Quebec Act
God'S Support Of America
William Bradford
Presbyterianism

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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

Diary of John Adams February 21 1765

Found in his diary, this was a draft of a longer essay on cannon and feudal law.

Thomas Jeffersons Draft Declaration of Independence

Jefferson's draft Included a passage blaming the King of England for the slave trade. To heighten the critique, he points out...

North Carolina Constitution of 1776

Diary of John Adams November 30 1804

Adams explains how a controversy over a preacher drove him away from choosing the ministry as a career. Bryant had been driven...

A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity Pleasure and Pain

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

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