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Perhaps the best-known Freemasons appendant body in the USA are the Shriners, who raise funds for children's hospitals and other charities.  

Perhaps the best-known Freemasons appendant body in the USA are the Shriners, who raise funds for children's hospitals and other charities.  

Membership dues can vary widely between jurisdictions and individual lodges, which frequently raise money for charity.

Membership dues can vary widely between jurisdictions and individual lodges, which frequently raise money for charity.

 

Historically, '''''Freemasons played a pivotal role in the [[United States]] in blocking [[communism]] from taking control of the [[White House]] and the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]'''''.  In 1944, the dying Freemason President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] put a fellow Freemason [[Harry Truman]] on his ticket to replace his Vice President, [[Henry Wallace]], a communist sympathizer.  This enabled the Freemason Truman to become president in 1945 and he subsequently appointed four Freemasons (Burton, Vinson, Clark, and Minson), all anti-communists, to the Supreme Court.

The central tenets of Freemasonry are:  

The central tenets of Freemasonry are: