دائرۃ المعارف بریطانیکا آن لائن آئی ڈی: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism — اقتباس: By the end of the 18th century, Deism had become a dominant religious attitude among intellectual and upper-class Americans. Benjamin Franklin, the great sage of the colonies and then of the new republic, summarized in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College, a personal creed that almost literally reproduced Herbert’s five fundamental beliefs.
اسٹنفورڈ دائرۃ المعارف فلسفہ آئی ڈی: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/ — اقتباس: Deism plays a role in the founding of the American republic as well. Many of the founding fathers (Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Paine) author statements or tracts that are sympathetic to deism; and their deistic sympathies influence the place given (or not given) to religion in the new American state that they found.
