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unusual facts about founding fathers



A More Perfect Constitution

He argues that a constitutional convention is overdue and is something that Founding Fathers would have wanted.

Article Four of the United States Constitution

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 pure 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."

Civil religion

George Washington was a sort of high priest, and the documents of the Founding Fathers have been treated as almost sacred texts.

Henry Wiencek

Henry Wiencek (born 1952) is an American journalist, historian and editor whose work has encompassed historically significant architecture, the Founding Fathers, various topics relating to slavery, and the Lego company.

Hollin Hills

Hollin Hills was intended as a variation of the 18th century Hollin Hall Plantation, originally owned by George Mason, one of the founding fathers, known as the “Father of the Bill of Rights.”

Muhammad Ali Bogra

Grew up in East-Pakistan and educated at the Calcutta University of India, Bogra was one of the core and principle Founding Fathers of current and modern state of Pakistan, responsible for leading the Muslim League in East Pakistan, in charge of party's foreign directorate.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, KCSI (February 6, 1893 - September 1, 1985) was one of the leading Founding Fathers of modern Pakistan, politician, statesman, diplomat, international jurist, and a prominent scholar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Oliver La Farge

Frances was a great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read.

Spirit of Seventy Sex

Directed by Stu Segall, Spirit of Seventy Sex is a tongue-in-cheek look at the sex lives of the Founding Fathers, including George Washington (and his wife Martha, who is played by Haven), Benjamin Franklin and Captain John Smith (Holmes).

William J. Duane

Her mother was Sarah Franklin Bache the daughter of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read.


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Brisbane Rugby League premiership

The "founding fathers" of the QARFL included John Fihelly, an Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament who became Minister for Railways and Deputy Premier.

C. W. Ruth

W. Ruth was one of the ten founding fathers of the Church of the Nazarene.

Charles Dadant

Along with Petro Prokopovych, Dadant is considered one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping.

Château Dufresne

The founding fathers of the city of Maisonneuve - now incorporated with the city of Montreal - the famous Dufresne brothers were wealthy twentieth century French Canadian entrepreneurs who played a major role in the history of Montreal.

Delta Sigma Chi

The founding fathers include Harold Hughes of Medicine Hat, Canada; J.D. Hills of Detroit, Michigan; John Reardon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harry Cummings of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and S.E. Julander of Des Moines Iowa.

Founding fathers of the European Union

Although not all the people who signed the treaty are known as founding fathers, a number are such as Paul-Henri Spaak (1899–1972), who also worked on the treaty as well as the Benelux union and was the first President of the European Parliament.

Frank Davison

Frank B. Davison, 1855–1935, considered one of the founding fathers of Texas City, Texas

Hush Hip Hop Tours

The tours are guided by some of hip hop's founding fathers, Grandmaster Caz, Kurtis Blow, Rahiem of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

I'm a Little Bit Country

Both sides decide to use the boys to give their opinion about the war, but their plan backfires because their parents interfered with their assignment about the Founding Fathers, and Cartman ended up in the hospital; shortly after, Cartman wakes up and delivers his message to the town, who see the truth of that statement and then break out into song (a version of "I'm a Little Bit Country" by Marty Cooper, as made famous by Donny and Marie Osmond).

James J. Cooke

While there he began research on the founding fathers of American air power during World War I. This research led to the publication in 2002 of a biography, Billy Mitchell (Lynne Reinner Press).

Judiciary Act of 1802

Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2005.

K. Ramunni Menon

Menon was invited to preside over the annual Music Academy's Sadas in 1944 and was also one of the founding fathers of the Tamil Isai Sangam.

Kainakary

Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara, one of the founding fathers and the first Superior General of C.M.I., born here.

Mark Patinkin

Sheldon Patinkin, author, teacher, director, and one of the founding fathers of The Second City, is his second cousin.

Marlin K. Jensen

On May 5, 2008, Jensen officially responded to Timothy Egan's New York Times op-ed piece which claimed that FLDS polygamy "is a look back at some of the behavior of Mormonism's founding fathers".

Michel Peissel

In 1988, having built a replica of a Viking long boat, Peissel and a crew of six rowed and sailed up the river Dvina and down the Dnieper 2400 km across the Soviet Union, from the Baltic to the Black Sea; an expedition meant to recreate that of the Varangians, the founding fathers of the Russian monarchy in the 8th century.

Najeeb Haroon

Apart from Khan he is the one of only two of the founding fathers who are still part of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Nijverdal

Thomas Ainsworth (1795-1841) was one of its founding fathers.

Princess Helga-Lee of Schaumburg-Lippe

Her mother was Claude Lennox Miller (daughter of Admiral and Governor Miller), a descendant of Edward Winslow, one of the founding fathers of the colonies in North America, who came on the Mayflower.

Saturnino Ador-Dionisio

He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (Class of 1935) and is one of the founding fathers of its first medical fraternity, the Mu Sigma Phi.

South Society

Chen Qubing (陳去病, 1874–1933, a native from Suzhou), Gao Xu (高旭, 1877-1925, a native from current Shanghai Jinshan District), and Liu Yazi (柳亞子, 1887-1958, a native of Suzhou) were three founding fathers of society.

Syng inkstand

It is thus both a work of art and an important artifact from American history, having been used by such prominent founding fathers as Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and James Madison.

Texas Education Agency

For example, the proposed curriculum would downplay Thomas Jefferson's emphasis on the separation of church and state (outlined in his Letter to Danbury Baptists), and would include a greater emphasis on the importance of religion to the founding fathers.

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes of the College of William & Mary.

Walter Price

Walter H. Price, one of the 'Four Founding Fathers' of Aston Villa Football Club