Candidates of the Anti-Masonic Party were elected to Congress in 1828 and at each of the five succeeding elections. The majority of the last set of Anti-Masonic incumbents were reelected in 1840 after realigning themselves ...

At these lower degrees, most members of Freemasonry belong to what is maintained as a fraternal organization that simply requires belief in a “Supreme Being” while avoiding discussion of politics and religion in the lodge, using metaphors of ...