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Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American Assessing America's founders and their values

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A great debate continues in America, one that was launched even before the states were truly united. In those days, the founding fathers often argued amongst themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of sanctioning a state religion. Many of those distinguished gentlemen were of the opinion that religious freedom, including the freedom not to worship, was essential to a true democracy. Others were driven by their own faith to consider the formalized worship of their creator a necessity for the development of a nation if it was to be composed of a morally upright citizenry (Lambert, ...

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