who are  the  founders of america?
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Carl Winslow build America with his own two hands
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American was founded on guns and religion.  Many of the early settlers came here to escape religious persecution.  They separated from England with guns, and "tamed the West" with guns (i.e. kicked out the people already living here.)  The idea of a great untamed wilderness, and the so-called "Western Expansion" still resonates in the American psyche.  Because of the importance of guns and religion, protections for these areas were written into America's founding documents.
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Lincoln put it best when he said, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." Also the magnificent words of Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That amongst these are Life., Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  "  Hard to improve on the words of these two statesmen when speaking of America's values.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure.  Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.
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When people say this country was founded by Christians, they must be talking about the Puritans.  Puritans would consider modern day Christianity heresy.  The pilgrims consisted of three primary groups: people fleeing persecution by the Church of England (Christians by their own definition), criminals fleeing prosecution, and adventures.\n\nFormer Southern Democrats who are now neo-conservatives or Republicans are the same Christians who wanted to keep blacks as slaves and supported the “separate but equal” laws. \n\nWhen I see “In God We Trust” assuming this is referring to a Christian God, I often ask which Christian God they are referring to… Amish, Anabaptism, Assemblies of God, Baptists (both Grace and Fundamentalists), Calvinism, Christadelphians, Christian Identity, Church Universal and Triumphant, Church of Christ, Church of England, Congregationalism, Coptic Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian, IURD, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran Church, Maronites, Mennonites, Nazarene, Methodism, Old Catholic Movement, Pentecostal Church, People's Temple, Pilgrims, Presbyterian Church, Protestant, Puritanism, Quakers, Roman Catholicism, Shakers, Spiritual Baptists, Thomas Christians, Unification Church, Unitarianism, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist...\n\n...since most of these religions claim to be the only correct version of Christianity, which one is our country founded on?\n\nThe self proclaimed Christian right have tried to impose their beliefs on America since America was founded; that’s the reason for the first article of the Bill of Rights.  \n\nThey consist of a small group of radicals who bark loudly.
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John Hanson was the first president after the Treaty of Paris under Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. George Washington was the first president under the Constitution.
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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
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James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was the fourth (1809–1817) President of the United States. He was co-author, with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, of the Federalist Papers, and is traditionally regarded as the Father of the United States Constitution.\nFor more info, go to:
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Go back to our roots.   The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  \n\nWe were founded by rebels who wanted free religion seperate from government and declared it a basic human right to pursue happiness in equality with all.\n\nOur beginning is quite beautiful...we have fallen off the road somehow.  Jefferson said when Capitalism surpasses Democracy we will become  disfunctional. ...Guess what?
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Actually, this is not George Washington. He was the first under the current constitution. However, there were 7 before him under the Articles of Confederation (they had the title: President of the United States in Congress Assembled). The first was John Hanson from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. Under the articles, these guys had very little power, so we don't hear much about them.
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He helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He was considered officially one of the Founding Fathers because he did not sign the Declaration of Independence, because he was opposed to slavery and thought they should have addressed that in the Declaration.
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Quakers. Here's a link to the wikipedia article about the founder of the church, William Penn:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of the Founders and early political figures, inventor, and a statesmen of the United States.\n\nOne of the earliest Founders, Franklin was noted for his curiosity, writings, ingenuity and diversity of interests. His wise and scintillating writings are proverbial to this day. He shaped the American Revolution; a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and intellectuals across Europe and the United States. An agent in London before the Revolution, and Minister to France during, he more than anyone defined the new nation in the minds of Europe. His success in securing French military and financial aid was the turning point for American victory over Britain. He invented the lightning rod; he was an early proponent of colonial unity; historians hail him as the "First American". The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania marked Franklin's 300th birthday in January 2006 with a wide array of exhibitions, and events citing Franklin's extraordinary accomplishments throughout his illustrious career.\n\nBorn in Boston, Massachusetts to a tallow-maker, Franklin learned printing from his older brother and became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy. He spent many years in England and published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack and the Pennsylvania Gazette. He formed both the first public lending library and fire department in America as well as the Junto, a political discussion club.\n\nHe became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. A diplomatic genius, Franklin was almost universally admired among the French as American minister to Paris, and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. From 1775 to 1776, Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and from 1785 to his death in 1790 was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.\n\nFranklin was interested in science and technology, carrying out his famous electricity experiments and invented the Franklin stove, medical catheter, lightning rod, swimfins, glass armonica (not the harmonica, which was invented long after Franklin), and bifocals. He also played a major role in establishing the higher education institutions that would become the University of Pennsylvania and the Franklin and Marshall College. In addition, Franklin was a noted linguist, fluent in five languages. He also practiced and published on astrology (see Poor Richard's Almanac).\n\nFranklin was also noted for his philanthropy and several liaisons, including that which produced his illegitimate Loyalist son William Franklin, later the colonial governor of New Jersey. Towards the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent early American abolitionists.
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Under the original Articles of Confederation, John Hanson was the first President of the United States, an oft-forgotten historical figure. Under the Constitution of the United States, the presidential system we usually think about, George Washington was the first president, and the only one never to reside in the White House.  It has never had a prime minister.
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Don't forget James Madison, John Jay, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, the first Federalists (now an essential aspect of the Republican Party).
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George Washington,  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,  James Madison,  James Monroe,  John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson,  Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,  James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor,  Millard Fillmore,  Franklin Pierce,  James Buchanan,  Abraham Lincoln,  Andrew Johnson,  Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rutherford Birchard Hayes,  James Abram Garfield,
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The Founding Fathers, in contrast to what is commonly believed, where not particularly religious men.  Washington, but most especially Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, were subscribers to the contemporaneous French Existentialists, who were what we would consider rational humanists...They believed in the Rights of Man being fundamental, and that each citizen (defined much like it was by the Greeks-free white men) should have some power to effect the government.  Washington was not a major philosophical player in the formation of the country-he had almost no influence over the constitution or design of the government, but was hugely respected for his honor and leadership (part of that leadership was to allow other, more qualified men, to design the governmental system). However, the greatest risk that these highly educated and successful men saw in democracy was that the "unwashed masses" could be easily swayed by charismatic leaders, and had questionable moral fibres.  Thus, they thought that the uneducated populace, which constituted the majority of voters, would only be as moral and ethical as the strength of their religious beliefs (the founding fathers saw themselves as being educated and strong enough to not need this kind of influence).  Thus, they strongly stressed to need for beleif in God, not because this was particularly important to themselves, but because they saw it as a stabilizing, positive influence on the poor and uneducated.  It should be noted that this fear, that giving power to poor, uneducated, volatile people would lead to anarchy and the worst kind of mass hysteria, was the reason most of Europe was terrified of this new form of government.  Even France, which was the originator of most of the ideas used for writing the constitution, waited until it was clear the system could work in the US before they tried it.  Its also interesting to note that the worst fears of Europe, that uneducated class power would lead to unspeakable horror, actually came true in France with the overthrow of King Louis XVI.  It also came true in Russia a century later.  So perhaps the founding fathers were right, the strong influence of religion may have tempered the early Americans worst impulses.