Founding Fathers of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Founding Fathers of the United States, also known to some Americans as the Fathers of Our Country, the Forefathers, Framers or the Founders are the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution or otherwise participated in the American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots. ..."
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Articles
A House Undivided Cannot Stand, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 3 Jun 2006
Related Topics: United States Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, Serbia
"The title ... can be thought of as perhaps the hallmark of the thinking of the American founding fathers, namely, the idea of divided sovereignty. The founders established a confederacy of states that were essentially thought of as independent nations. Indeed, up until the 1860s it was common for Americans to refer to their home states as 'my country.'"
Related Topics: United States Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, Serbia
"The title ... can be thought of as perhaps the hallmark of the thinking of the American founding fathers, namely, the idea of divided sovereignty. The founders established a confederacy of states that were essentially thought of as independent nations. Indeed, up until the 1860s it was common for Americans to refer to their home states as 'my country.'"
Original Intent, by Charley Reese, 3 Jun 2006
"If the Founding Fathers were to come back, I doubt if they would recognize the United States today. ... The Founding Fathers were suspicious of government and wary of it. They recognized that government is always the greatest threat to liberty. ... Clearly, the Founding Fathers did not approve of the modern concept, imposed by federal courts, of one man, one vote."
"If the Founding Fathers were to come back, I doubt if they would recognize the United States today. ... The Founding Fathers were suspicious of government and wary of it. They recognized that government is always the greatest threat to liberty. ... Clearly, the Founding Fathers did not approve of the modern concept, imposed by federal courts, of one man, one vote."
Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States, by Murray N. Rothbard, Journal of Libertarian Studies, 1995
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"The Founding Fathers of the American republics ... were very much alive to the problem of bureaucracy and of government power. ... The first was to confine government, for the first time in history, by explicit written constitutions ... The second and equally essential part ... was to make sure that entrenched oligarchies and bureaucracies would not develop."
Related Topics: Bureaucracy, John Adams, Government, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Limited Government, John Marshall, Richard M. Nixon, Parkinson's Law, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Spoils System, Martin Van Buren, Voting, George Washington
"The Founding Fathers of the American republics ... were very much alive to the problem of bureaucracy and of government power. ... The first was to confine government, for the first time in history, by explicit written constitutions ... The second and equally essential part ... was to make sure that entrenched oligarchies and bureaucracies would not develop."
Impeach the American People!, by Butler Shaffer, 17 Nov 2006
Related Topics: The State
"Those who drafted the Declaration of Independence had an inherent distrust of power. Rather than see this as a reason to not create state systems, they believed that members of an enlightened, skeptical, and constantly observant public could and would insist upon state authorities restraining their appetites, lest they be driven from office."
Related Topics: The State
"Those who drafted the Declaration of Independence had an inherent distrust of power. Rather than see this as a reason to not create state systems, they believed that members of an enlightened, skeptical, and constantly observant public could and would insist upon state authorities restraining their appetites, lest they be driven from office."
Sic Semper Tyrannis, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., The American Conservative, 23 Apr 2007
Related Topics: Patrick Henry
Analyzes how the U.S. Presidency has been transmogrified from the role proposed by the Federalists
"... the founders (perhaps naively) believed that they could create a Roman-style republic with a twist. There would be a head of state, but he would be controlled by a legislature. In fact, controlling the president would be the main job of the legislature. The founders went this one better by refusing to invest much power in the central government. Instead, the powers were decentralized and belonged to the member states."
Related Topics: Patrick Henry
Analyzes how the U.S. Presidency has been transmogrified from the role proposed by the Federalists
"... the founders (perhaps naively) believed that they could create a Roman-style republic with a twist. There would be a head of state, but he would be controlled by a legislature. In fact, controlling the president would be the main job of the legislature. The founders went this one better by refusing to invest much power in the central government. Instead, the powers were decentralized and belonged to the member states."
Tax Reform Promises Treats, Delivers Tricks, by Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk, 4 Nov 2007
Related Topics: Taxation
Discusses Charles Rangel's plan to reform the Alternative Minimum Tax
"The founding fathers never saw taxation as a method to direct social behavior or enforce equality. Equality to them was equality under the law, not equality of outcome, or income. It was not the founding fathers' job to manage the economy, or make American businesses competitive. That was up to the free market and American businesses."
Related Topics: Taxation
Discusses Charles Rangel's plan to reform the Alternative Minimum Tax
"The founding fathers never saw taxation as a method to direct social behavior or enforce equality. Equality to them was equality under the law, not equality of outcome, or income. It was not the founding fathers' job to manage the economy, or make American businesses competitive. That was up to the free market and American businesses."
The Threat of Militarism, by Karen Kwiatkowski, 9 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Military Industrial Complex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Learning
Presentation to Global Scholar seminar, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
"... we must limit our military forces to defensive purposes only. ... is an idea that guys like George Washington ,,, embraced, along with about every one of the founders. ... if a founding father believed that we should have profit in war, force people to fight those for-profit wars, and expand our military capabilities to offensive and imperialistic, he would have kept those thoughts to himself."
Related Topics: Military Industrial Complex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Learning
Presentation to Global Scholar seminar, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
"... we must limit our military forces to defensive purposes only. ... is an idea that guys like George Washington ,,, embraced, along with about every one of the founders. ... if a founding father believed that we should have profit in war, force people to fight those for-profit wars, and expand our military capabilities to offensive and imperialistic, he would have kept those thoughts to himself."
Cartoons
Founding Fathers at 1787 Constitutional Convention, by Chip Bok, 8 Aug 2004
Books
Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, 1829
Digitized copy available at Google Book Search
Digitized copy available at Google Book Search
- ISBN 1408684675
: Paperback, Schwarz Press, 2008
Videos
Raps!: Founding Fathers
Macromedia Flash animation starring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, with rap-like lyrics
Macromedia Flash animation starring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, with rap-like lyrics