The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... Henry, but most assuredly of John Adams, John Jay, John Dickinson, Benjamin Rush, and Roger Sherman. It would be a stretch—but not an impossible one—to include Jefferson in this company, at least in retirement, when he was a consumer of ...
... Henry (1736–1799). A celebrated orator of the Revolutionary Period, called by an admirer the “forest-born Demosthenes.” Governor of Virginia, 1776–1779 and 1784– 1786. Perhaps the most influential Anti-Federalist in the nation. An ...
... Henry P. Johnston, ed., The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay. Most of the letters that Johnston published as well as numerous additional ones appear in an online edition of Jay's papers, recently posted by the Columbia ...
... Henry; Patriot and Statesman. New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1969. Lester Cappon, ed., The Adams- Jefferson Letters. 2 vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. George W. Corner, ed. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush ...
... Henry Laurens. Vols. 1–3. George C. Rogers, Jr., ed., The Papers of Henry Laurens. Vols. 4–16. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1968–2003. Michael Meranze, ed., Benjamin Rush Essays: Literary, Moral, and Philosophical ...