History

How did Freemasonry influence the founding principles of the United States?

Early American Craft Masonry fostered principles of morality, merit, and political equality, values that aligned with the founding principles of the United States. The fraternity established itself in the American colonies during the early eighteenth century, with the first regular lodge constituted in Boston in 1733. Anderson's Constitutions, which framed modern Anglo-American Craft Masonry around concepts of moral merit and equal standing, was reprinted in Philadelphia in 1734 by Benjamin Franklin, himself a prominent Mason.

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