01316     2200253   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001400123084002000137100001800157245006800175260005000243300003400293500002300327504001400350520057200364650003700936650003900973990002501012990002501037INLIS00000000000454020221012020651  a0010-0520004540221012                |          | eng    a0-8050-7442-2  aeng  a211.40973  a211.40973 JAC f0 aJacoby, Susan1 aFreethinkers : A History of American Secularism /cSusan Jacoby  aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2004  aix, 417p. :b:illus, ;c24cm.  aIndeks : p.403-417  ap.389-397  aOn the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independece, Robert Ingersoll, the foremost champion of freethought and the most famous orator in late-nineeteenth-century America, paid tribute in his hometown of Peoria, Illinois, to "the first secular government that was ever founded in this world." Also known as "the Great Agnostic," Ingersoll praised the framers of the Constitution for deliberately omitting any mention of God from the nation's founding document and istead acknowledging " We the People" as the supreme governmental authority. 4aSecularism-United States-History 4aFreethinkers-United States-History  a09291/MKRI-P/XI/2008  a09291/MKRI-P/XI/2008