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Founding Father
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founding father
English
+s of the United States
thumb|right|The men who wrote and signed the United States Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence are among the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Etymology
en Warren G. Harding American politician 1 in his keynote speech at the 1916 Republican National Convention, when he was a U.S. senator.
Noun
Founding Father
en chiefly US chiefly in the plural Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America, especially political leaders who drafted and signed the United States Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution and military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
en 1971 w:Lyndon Johnson w:The Vantage Point https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/ w:Holt, Reinhart & Winston 0-03-084492-4 74-102146 1067880747 104 https://archive.org/details/vantagepointpers00john/page/104/ At the heart of it, I thought of the Great Society as an extension of the Bill of Rights. When our fundamental American rights were set forth by the Founding Fathers, they reflected the concerns of a people who sought freedom in their time. But in our time a broadened concept of freedom requires that every American have the right to a healthy body, a full education, a decent home, and the opportunity to develop to the best of his talents.
Related terms
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Translations
man who founded something
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 國父 Guófù
Georgian: ka დამფუძნებელი მამა
German: de Gründervater der USA m
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