- John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) and Two Treatises on Government (1690) | Constitution Center
- The Flushing Remonstrance https://history.nycourts.gov/about_period/flushing-remonstrance/
- Roger Williams’ Bloudy Tennant
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65739/65739-h/65739-h.htm
- Mary Dyer’s answer to the Puritans before hanging https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-the-general-court-and-testimony/
- Maryland Toleration Act 1649 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/maryland_toleration.asp
- George Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport George Washington’s Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island | Loeb Institute | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University
- George Washington’s Farewell Address, pp. 16-17 Washington’s Farewell Address
- Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary Read especially Article 11. The treaty was passed unanimously by the Senate after being read aloud and published publicly. Avalon Project – The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816 – Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
- Letter of the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut to President Jefferson, October 7, 1801 Danbury Baptist Association to Thomas Jefferson, [after 7 Octo …
- Jefferson’s Reply to the Danbury Baptists, January 1, 1802 V. Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association, 1 Janu …
- James Madison Memorial and Remonstrance
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163 - Thomas Jefferson, Statute for Religious Freedom in Virginia
https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/virginia-statute-religious-freedom/ - Penn’s “Holy Experiment” https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=86
- The Constitution
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
Article VI. No religious test - The Bill of Rights ratified in 1791
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript 1-10
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments
Fourteenth Amendment,
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. - Reynolds v. United States (1878)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/98/145/ - Words of Founders and religious liberty advocates. Quotes on religious liberty on the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty site. Words of Founders – BJC
- The Gettysburg Address https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/gettysburg-address-everett-copy/
- The Emancipation Proclamation. https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/emancipationproclamation/
- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address https://www.nps.gov/linc/learn/historyculture/lincoln-second-inaugural.htm
- Reinhold Niebuhr, “Christian Faith and the World Crisis,”https://www.religion-online.org/article/christian-faith-and-the-world-crisis/
- Wm. Loyd Allen, “How Baptists Assessed Hitler,” https://www.religion-online.org/article/how-baptists-assessed-hitler/
- President Franklin Rosevelt’s prayer on June 6, 1944. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/prayer-d-day
- John F. Kennedy, Speech to the Houston Ministerial Association. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/speech-senator-john-f-kennedy-greater-houston-ministerial-association-rice-hotel-houston
- REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT THE TRADE MART IN DALLAS, TX, NOVEMBER 22, 1963 [UNDELIVERED]. https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/dallas-tx-trade-mart-undelivered-19631122
- https://constitutioncenter.org/
- https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/americans-agree-the-first-amendment-is-important-but-many-are-unsure-why-survey-says.html?gift=7be4f453-c63a-4517-8dc5-83f6e2e126f7
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-empathy-a-sin-some-conservative-christians-argue-it-can-be
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