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What did the most important founders believe about separation of church and state?
Here's our list of founders, ranked in general order of their importance (we explain our ranking system elsewhere in this site). Each founder is linked to a separate article that explains his beliefs about church and state.
Note: we've only just begun to research this section in detail. Only a few names on this list are now linked to separate articles. We will add more to this section as we have time, but it's going to take a long time, and we'd love to have help. If you want to help in this project, drop us a line!
- James Madison
- James Wilson
- Rufus King
- Elbridge Gerry
- Edmund Randolph
- Charles Pinckney
- George Mason
- Alexander Hamilton
- Gouverneur Morris
- John Rutledge
- Caleb Strong
- George Read
- John Marshall
- John Vining
- Ben Franklin
- Fisher Ames
- James Monroe
- James McHenry
- Thomas Jefferson
- Samuel Adams
- Patrick Henry
- John Q. Adams
- John Adams
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Ben Rush
- John Jay
- John Randolph
- Joseph Story
- Henry Lee
- John Hancock
- John Witherspoon
- Noah Webster
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