Founding members included publishers Leverett Gleason of Lev Gleason Publications, Bill Gaines of EC Comics, Harold Moore ( publisher of Famous Funnies ) and Rae Herman of Orbit Publications.

In October 2000, David Brooks remarked in a Weekly Standard article that Benjamin Franklin-due to his extreme wealth, cosmopolitanism, and adventurous social life-is " Our Founding Yuppie ".

Outside magazine named him one of the " 50 who left their mark " in the sport in 2000, and Smithsonian magazine honored him in 1994 as the " Founding Father of Mountain Bikes.

* 2000 Founding of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

* Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club: Founding owners of the MLB team in 1977 and had a 10 % stake with majority owner Labatt's Breweries ( later acquired by InterBrew NV ) and sold to Rogers Media in 2000

The resulting Declaration of Policy was approved as official Party Policy by members at the Founding Convention of the Canadian Alliance on March 25, 2000.

" The Founding of APC: Coincidences and Logical Steps in Global Civil Society Networking ", APC Annual Report 2000

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 ), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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Founding member Roschmann left the band in late 1999 ; Hoff and Ripple joined in early 2000 and McCaffery replaced Hoff in 2003.

A republican form of government is distinguished from a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid ; as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, " Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property ; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

For example, Livy, a Roman historian who lived in the 1st century BC, wrote a history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita ( From the Founding of the City ) in 144 volumes ; only 35 volumes still exist, although short summaries of most of the rest do exist.

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 ”.

* Doris and Moris Grekel also wrote three-part non church-authorized biography on Eddy, The Discovery of the Science of Man: ( 1821 – 1888 ), ( ISBN 1-893107-23-X ), The Founding of Christian Science: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy 1888 – 1900, ( ISBN 1-893107-24-8 ), and The Forever Leader: ( 1901 – 1910 ) ( ISBN 0-9645803-8-1 ).

In the 1930s, Morison wrote a series of books on the history of Harvard University and New England, including Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors ( 1930 ), The Founding of Harvard College ( 1935 ), Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century ( 1936 ), Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636 – 1936 ( 1936 ), and The Puritan Pronaos ( 1936 ).

* 1793: Dr. Benjamin Rush, Founding Father ( signer of the Declaration of Independence ), wrote an essay titled " A plan of a Peace-Office for the United States ".

On the very first " Canada Day ," July 1st, 1867, Le Minerve, the newspaper mouthpiece of George Etienne Cartier, a Founding Father of Canada, wrote as follows to describe the new Confederation: ( TRANSLATION :)

Professor Gordon S. Wood, renowned scholar of the Founding era, wrote:

In addition to appearing in works named for Libuše, Přemysl is also a subject of the writings of Wenceslaus Hajek of Libočany published in 1541, a 1779 ballad by Johann Gottfried Herder, fairy tales by Johann Karl August Musäus, and Clemens Brentano's 1815 The Founding of Prague.

In 1996 Garaudy published his most controversial work, Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israelienne, later translated into English as The Founding Myths of Modern Israel.

* Founding of the Munsey Publishing House, published in 1907 on their 25th anniversary

In 2001, Chester Dunning, a specialist in Russian history at Texas A & M University published the nearly 700-page Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty.

She won Columbia's Bancroft Dissertation Award in American History in 1976 and her dissertation was published by the prestigious Columbia University Press in 1980 under the title, From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson.

Toward the end of his life, Catton published Michigan: A Bicentennial History ( 1976 ) and The Bold & Magnificent Dream: America's Founding Years, 1492 – 1815 ( 1978 ).

Martin Davis, who lived at Little Stoke Farm, has published a book about local history: The Farmer and the Goose with the Golden Eyes: A Celebration of a Vanished Part of Rural South Gloucestershire and the Founding of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge.

In addition to the volume already mentioned, he published Speeches by R. R. Torrens ( 1858 ), A Handy Book on the Real Property Act of South Australia ( 1862 ), Transportation Considered as a Punishment and as a Mode of Founding Colonies ( 1863 ), and An Essay on the Transfer of Land by Registration ( 1882 ).

An address he gave on Pioneer Difficulties on Founding South Australia was published as a pamphlet in 1891.

She is the Founding Editor of the New York Carib News and has published articles about Afro-American Literature.

He introduced the concept of a uniform space in general topology, as a by-product of his collaboration with Nicolas Bourbaki ( of which he was a Founding Father ).

As Fourth of July celebrations commemorating the Founding Fathers and the heroes of the Revolutionary War became increasingly popular, however, the pursuit of ' antiquarianism ,' which focused on local history, became acceptable as a way to honor the achievements of early Americans.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Most of the nation's Founding Fathers expected the Congress, which was the first branch of government described in the Constitution, to be the dominant branch of government ; they did not expect a strong executive.

A recent example is The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes ( New York, Oxford University Press USA, 2006 ), which examines the views of some early presidents as well as other political figures of the period.

The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticized democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy ; James Madison argued, that what distinguished a democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get stronger as it got larger and combats faction by its very structure.

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

If records were kept they would be in Spanish and would conform to the 1680 Laws of the Indies requirements and not the English Common Law which the Founding Fathers of the United States of America based our modern record keeping systems on.

His last years were occupied with his great work, Die Begründung des deutschen Reiches durch Wilhelm I ( The Founding of the German Empire under William I )( Munich, 1889 – 1894 ), a work of great importance on German unification, for which he was allowed to use the Prussian state papers and was therefore able to write a history of the greatest events of his own time with full access to highly secret sources of information.

" 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.

They believed that the traditional agrarian roots of the United States, which dated back to the nation's founding in the 18th century ( with many of America's most important Founding Fathers being farmers ), were important to its nature.

Originalism faces hermeneutic difficulties in understanding the intentions of the Founding Fathers, who lived 200 years ago ( original intent ), or the context of the time in which they lived ( original meaning ).

The title for the founding king would be Kubrat Khagan, which would mean " The Founding King ", which he was.

" The two-dollar bill, which was discontinued in 1966, was reintroduced with a new reverse featuring the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence.

" As political parties had interests which were adverse to the rights of citizens and to the general welfare of the nation, several Founding Fathers preferred a nonpartisan form of government.

Political realism formed the basis of Kennan's work as a diplomat and diplomatic historian and remains relevant to the debate over American foreign policy, which since the 19th century has been characterized by a shift from the Founding Fathers ' realist school to the idealistic or Wilsonian school of international relations.

In the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton, examining the current chronology of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, expressed discontent with prevailing theories and proposed one of his own, which, basing its study on Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, changed the traditional dating of the Argonautic Expedition, the Trojan War, and the Founding of Rome.

In 2005, he became Founding Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, a group of politicians in the UK Parliament which examines the issue of extraordinary rendition and related issues.

Benjamin Rush, a Founding Father of the United States and a physician, proposed that being black was a hereditary skin disease, which he called " negroidism ," and that it could be cured.

Egbert Benson ( June 21, 1746 New York City – August 24, 1833 Jamaica, Queens County, New York ) was a lawyer, jurist, politician from Upper Red Hook, New York, and a Founding Father of the United States who represented New York in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and the United States House of Representatives, and who served as a member of the New York State constitutional convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution.

Barbara Goldsmith was a Founding Editor of New York magazine and the author of the widely-imitated series, “ The Creative Environment ,” in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer, I. M. Pei, George Balanchine, and Pablo Picasso about their creative process.