دائرۃ المعارف بریطانیکا آن لائن آئی ڈی: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism — اقتباس: The second and third presidents of the United States also held Deistic convictions, as is amply evidenced in their correspondence. “The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion,” John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1816.
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.
