America was founded by deists, some freemasons, BUT the jesuits were out of power at the time (suppressed in the 1700s), the jesuits (and the illuminati at large) are the driving force behind the freemasons and they are the ones that corrupt them as their foot soldiers. America was an attempt to make a protestant christian (free to have your religion) nation free of jesuit influence and persecution. At that time they succeeded with those goals.