The Founders

Levin, in Liberty and Tyranny, Page 40, reminds us that the Founders believed in God, believed that this Creator started the universe, put into place the laws and moral order that govern it and all beings in existence, including or especially human beings. These Founders felt that Americans, its Constitution, it Declaration of Independence and its regard for individual, unalienable rights, were all authored and blessed by the Creator of all of it: "At least two Founders, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, are widely believed to have been Deists. They were men of varying denominations but united and emphatic in the belief that the Creator was the origin of their existence and the source of their reason."