=LDR 00000nam 2200000 4500 =001 INLIS000000000004540 =990 ##$$a 09291/MKRI-P/XI/2008 =005 20221012020651 =035 ##$$a 0010-0520004540 =008 221012################|##########|#eng## =020 ##$$a 0-8050-7442-2 =041 $$a eng =082 ##$$a 211.40973 =084 ##$$a 211.40973 JAC f =100 #$$a Jacoby, Susan =245 1#$$a Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism /$c Susan Jacoby =260 ##$$a New York :$b Cambridge University Press,$c 2004 =300 ##$$a ix, 417p. : $b :illus, ; $c 24cm. =500 ##$$a Indeks : p.403-417 =504 ##$$a p.389-397 =520 ##$$a On the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independece, Robert Ingersoll, the foremost champion of freethought and the most famous orator in late-nineeteenth-century America, paid tribute in his hometown of Peoria, Illinois, to "the first secular government that was ever founded in this world." Also known as "the Great Agnostic," Ingersoll praised the framers of the Constitution for deliberately omitting any mention of God from the nation's founding document and istead acknowledging " We the People" as the supreme governmental authority. =650 4$$a Secularism-United States-History =650 4$$a Freethinkers-United States-History =990 ##$$a 09291/MKRI-P/XI/2008