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American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)
The short answer: no—scholarly consensus and founding-era documents show the was not legally established as a Christian nation, even though Christian belief and rhetoric heavily shaped early American ...
The assembled analyses identify a long American tradition of short, stirring patriotic phrases—ranging from Revolutionary War-era lines like to 19th- and 20th-century campaign and cultural slogans suc...
The Founding Fathers were religiously diverse: many were nominal or practicing Protestants (Anglican/Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, etc.), a meaningful minority were theistic/Christian...
Enlightenment ideas—especially Locke’s natural rights, Montesquieu’s separation of powers, and a growing emphasis on toleration and conscience—shaped early American legal references to religion by shi...