* 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

Many Enlightenment thinkers ( such as Adam Smith and the American Founding Fathers ) subscribed to this view to some extent, and it remains influential among so-called classical liberals and libertarians.

George Washington ( –, 1799 ), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

* 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher ; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1804 )

On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding.

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture ( 2011 )

) – July 4, 1826 ) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and the third President of the United States ( 1801 – 1809 ).

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.

The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding ( Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Press, 2009 )

According to the US Library of Congress exhibit " Religion and the Founding of the American Republic " " It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson ( 1801-1809 ) and of James Madison ( 1809-1817 ) the state became a church.

The United States Constitution has never formally addressed the issue of political parties, primarily because the Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan.

* May 22 – Hugh Williamson, American Founding Father ( b. 1735 )

* March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father ( d. 1813 )

During the American Revolution, Philadelphia played an instrumental role as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787.

Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution, wrote “ All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe ”.

It is named in honor of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

W. Richard West Jr., Founding Director of the Smithsonian Institution | Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

* Suzan Shown Harjo, Southern Cheyenne and Muscogee ( Creek ), Founding Trustee, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ; President, Morning Star Institute ( a Native rights advocacy organization based in Washington DC ).

* W. Richard West Jr., Southern Cheyenne, Founding Director, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy.

* Terminus ( poem ), Written in 1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803-1882 ) Writer, Poet, Founding member of the American Trancendentalism movement of the 19th century

* David Quigley Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy ( New York: Farrar.

Surely convinced by the commercial success of the cheaper American version / revision of the ANCL-although of lesser quality on some minor points-the T. & T. Clark get associated with the Christian Literature Company and with others American editors for the publication of sequel: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

Unlike the Ante-Nicene Fathers which was produced by using earlier translations of the Ante-Nicene Christian Library ( ANCL ), the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers was printed simultaneously in Europe and in America, by T. & T. Clark, by Christian Literature Company and other American editors.

The first, Flags of Our Fathers, focused on the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi.

1885 photo of Robert Harris ( painter ) | Robert Harris's 1884 painting, Conference at Quebec in 1864, to settle the basics of a union of the British North American Provinces, also known as The Fathers of Confederation.

Noting the flaws perceived in the American system, the Fathers of Confederation opted to retain a monarchical form of government.

* The American Coalition for Fathers and Children ( ACFC ) -- Largest member supported shared parenting organization in the USA

George Clinton ( July 26, 1739 April 20, 1812 ) was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Indeed, it was almost certainly a literary inspiration for the American Revolution, being well known to many of the Founding Fathers.

The Essay has been seen as an innovative attempt to reclaim the tradition of republican citizenship in modern Britain, and an influence on the ideas of republicanism held by the American Founding Fathers.

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

This study of the history of England made the American Founding Fathers ensure that general warrants would be illegal in the United States as well when the Fourth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution was ratified in 1791.

Some examples of American charismatic leaders from the 18th through 20th centuries include Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, and generals Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and George S. Patton.

Reverence for Roman republicanism was strong among the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Latin American revolutionaries ; the Americans described their new government as a republic ( from res publica ) and gave it a Senate and a President ( another Latin term ), rather than make use of available English terms like commonwealth or parliament.

" In 1792 Dr Benjamin Rush, one of the ' Founding Fathers ' of the USA, presented a paper before the American Philosophical Society which argued that the ' color ' and ' figure ' of blacks were derived from a form of leprosy.

This tradition was prominent in the intellectual life of 16th-century Italy, as well as seventeenth-and 18th-century Britain and America ; indeed the term " virtue " appears frequently in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, David Hume, the republicans of the English Civil War period, the 18th-century English Whigs, and the prominent figures among the Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding Fathers.

" Why the Scottish Enlightenment Was Useful to the Framers of the American Constitution ," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol.

In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U. S. 579, 644 ( 1952 ), Justice Robert H. Jackson's concurring opinion cites the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers ' intent to constrain executive power even during wartime: " hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history.

Some historians define the " Founding Fathers " to mean a larger group, including not only the Signers and the Framers but also all those who, whether as politicians, jurists, statesmen, soldiers, diplomats, or ordinary citizens, took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America.

He then described the context in which the Constitutional Framers drafted the clause, and displayed how early American courts interpreted the clause.