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The Founding Fathers held a spectrum of personal religious beliefs that shaped the Constitution indirectly: they drew on Enlightenment ideas and Christian moral concepts while deliberately creating a ...
The claim that America was founded as a Christian nation rests on a mix of historical facts—many early Americans were Christians, public institutions and rhetoric often invoked God, and some legal opi...
Most reputable Masonic and historical summaries show disagreement about Samuel Adams’s membership: several Masonic-friendly sites and local lodge histories list or assert that “Samuel Adams” was assoc...
A modest but unmistakable cohort of ’s revolutionaries were : and are the clearest examples, while several signers of the Declaration and a handful of other prominent patriots have verifiable Masonic ...
The Founding Fathers were religiously diverse: many were nominal or practicing Protestants (Anglican/Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, etc.), a meaningful minority were theistic/Christian...
Several prominent Founding Fathers are documented Freemasons and can be tied to specific colonial lodges: George Washington was initiated at Fredericksburg Lodge in Virginia and later received Masonic...
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...