American History Lesson 46: Freemasonry

In this lesson I learned about freemasonry. Freemasonry was the first widespread organization to support religious toleration and liberty, and it would be through it that those principles would be spread throughout America. Though according to a book called Masonic Membership of the Founding Fathers by Ronald E. Heaton, only eight of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were freemasons. However it is apparent that their initiation affected them and changed how each of them thought.