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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 Madison
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Jonas Phillips
Canada
Masons
Thomas Paine
Indians
Nature Of Man
Greatness Of Christianity
Madison's Religious Beliefs
Baptists
Bible
Attacks On Jefferson
Science And Religion
Deism
Great Britain
Church Of England
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Epitaphs
Revolutionary War

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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 Hebrew Congregations of Philadelphia Newport Charlesto

Letter from Danbury Baptists to Thomas Jefferson

This is the letter that prompted Jefferson's famous letter declaring there to be a wall separating church and state.

Benjamin Franklins Request for Prayers at the Constitutional

The Constitutional Convention had been meeting for five weeks, and had hit a perilous deadlock. The large states were insisting...

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...

Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments

This is one of the most important documents in the history of religious freedom. James Madison wrote it as part of a drive (by...

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