Thomas Paine, Common Sense and the Crisis (New York, 1975), p. 59
1255
Bloch, Visionary Republic, p. 55
1256
Ibid., pp. 60–63
1257
Ibid., pp. 29, 31
1258
Edwin S. Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (San Francisco, 1987), p. 38
1259
Madison to William Bradford, 1 April 1774, in William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal, eds, The Papers of James Madison (Chicago, 1962), 1, pp. 212–13