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American politician (born 1963)
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...
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...
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...
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 ...