Founding Fathers - Everything2.com

"Founding Fathers" is a phrase often applied vaguely to support debate on interpretation of U.S. constitutional law. We speak of the character and intent of the Founding Fathers... but there is no strong consensus among historians to specify a canonical list of Founding Fathers.

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and Records Administration" class='populated' >National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) focuses on the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention (or Federal Convention), which resulted in the 1788 Constitution. It's well worth noting that, of the 55 delegates, only 39 actually signed the Constitution. Other sources also consider the signers of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1781 Articles of Confederation to be "Founding Fathers". cannon, held high positions in the Continental Congress and Supreme Court, and rubbed shoulders with many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. More than that, he lent his thoughts to The Federalist Papers, which is in ways a more important document than the Constitution it discusses. So, even though his "John Hancock" isn't on the Constitution, I've elected to include him below. NY yes NJ DOI SC DOI VA DOI yes PA DOI yes GA DOI yes DE DOI yes VA DOI class='populated' >Charles Carroll of Carrollton MD DOI SC DOI NJ DOI yes PA DOI PA DOI GA DOI VA DOI PA DOI MA DOI yes NJ DOI PA DOI NC DOI NY DOI GA DOI NH DOI NY DOI nodeshell NJ DOI MA DOI MD DOI RI DOI yes VA DOI yes >Thomas Lynch, Jr. SC DOI >Thomas Nelson, Jr. VA DOI MD DOI NY DOI NC DOI MD DOI NH DOI CT DOI CT DOI, AOC MA DOI, AOC yes NY DOI, AOC >Francis Lightfoot Lee VA DOI, AOC MA DOI, AOC yes NC DOI, AOC NJ DOI, AOC NH DOI, AOC CT DOI, AOC VA DOI, AOC yes MA DOI, AOC yes CT DOI, AOC >Thomas Heyward, Jr. SC DOI, AOC DE DOI, AOC RI DOI, AOC PA DOI, AOC, CON PA DOI, CON yes PA DOI, CON PA DOI, CON DE DOI, CON CT AOC NC AOC PA AOC GA AOC GA AOC MA AOC SC AOC RI AOC NY AOC MA AOC VA AOC RI AOC MD AOC yes VA AOC SC AOC GA AOC >John Wentworth, Jr. NH AOC NC AOC >Jonathan Bayard Smith PA AOC PA AOC NJ AOC DE AOC SC AOC MA AOC VA AOC CT AOC PA AOC NY AOC >William Henry Drayton SC AOC MD AOC, CON NY AOC, CON DE AOC, CON GA CON NY CON yes >Charles Cotesworth Pinckney SC CON SC CON >Dan of St. Thomas Jennifer MD CON NJ CON VA CON yes >Gunning Bedford, Jr. DE CON NC CON DE CON VA CON yes MD CON PA CON VA CON NH CON SC CON NJ CON MA CON NH CON SC CON DE CON >Richard Dobbs Spaight NC CON MA CON PA CON PA CON NC CON GA CON CON NJ CON nodeshell NJ CON yes tag -->

Benjamin Rush	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness	Thomas Jefferson	No government can ever give you freedom
Benjamin Harrison	internet censorship	James Madison	Alexander Hamilton
Communist	Declaration of Independence	Convention on the Future of Europe	Robert Morris
Francis Hopkinson	Antonin Scalia considers the meaning of golf	Source Code as Speech	Thurgood Marshall On the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America	John Adams	common law	enjoy
Benjamin Franklin	Nothing outside the text will last