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.
