Founding Fathers

Examples of Founding Fathers in the following topics:

• Deism

  • American Founding Fathers, or Framers of the Constitution, who were influenced by such philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, Gouverneur Morris, and Hugh Williamson; their political speeches show distinct Deistic influence.
  • Other notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly Deist, such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine.
  • Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and Third President of the United States

• The Framers of the Constitution

  • The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were political leaders who participated in the American Revolution.
  • The "Founding Fathers" included two major groups.
  • Some historians consider the "Founding Fathers" to be a larger group, which includes not only the Signers and the Framers but also ordinary citizens who took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America.
  • Morris identified seven figures as the main Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
  • The Founding Fathers had strong educational backgrounds at some of the colonial colleges or abroad.

• Democracy v. Republicanism

  • American republicanism, founded and first practiced by the Founding Fathers in the 18th century, was based on early Roman, Renaissance and English models and ideas.
  • The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values.
  • The Founding Fathers discoursed endlessly on the meaning of "republicanism. " John Adams in 1787 defined it as "a government, in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last, are equally subject to the laws. "
  • The Founding Fathers wanted republicanism because its principles guaranteed liberty, with opposing, limited powers offsetting one another.

• American Republicanism

  • The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values who were involved in the shaping of the American political system.
  • Republican virtue, Federalists argued, was found in commerce, because commercial ties created the national strength and wealth necessary to safeguard liberties.

• The Status of Women

  • The ideals of liberty, equality, and independence espoused by the founding fathers did little to better women's lives in particular.
  • Whig political theorists argued that men's independence, based on land ownership, freed them to vote, and because women were dependent on their husbands, sons, and fathers, they were unable to behave independently in the political and economic realms.

• Petrarch

  • Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism" both for his discovery of important classical texts and his personal commitment to the way of life found in ancient literature and philosophy.
  • He studied law at the University of Montpellier (1316–20) and Bologna (1320–23) because his father was in the profession of law he insisted that Petrarch and his brother study law also.
  • Petrarch is traditionally called the "Father of Humanism" and considered by many to more generally be the "Father of the Renaissance."
  • This honorific is so given both for his influential philosophical attitudes, found in his numerous personal letters, as well as his discovery and compilation of classical texts.

• Tomb of Ramose

  • Ramose was the father of Senenmut, one of the most important state officials under the reign of the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut in the 18th dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom.
  • One of the most interesting things about his tomb is the mystery surrounding his social background, and whether this father of an important official came from commoner roots.
  • The tomb was found in 1935 by Wiliam Hayes and Ambrose Lansing of the Metropolitan Museum, as they were excavating under a hillside terrace at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Western Thebes.
  • Ramose's inferior funerary equipment suggests that Senenmut's position in the Egyptian state must have still been comparatively minor when his father died.
  • Panel in the false door of Senemut's tomb, showing him in the middle with his mother Hatnefer (in front of him) and his father Ramose (behind him)

• Frederick the Great

  • In his childhood and youth, Frederick the Great was a sensitive man with great appreciation for intellectual development, arts, and education, which, despite his father's fears, did not prevent him from becoming a brilliant military strategist during his later reign as King of Prussia.
  • As Frederick grew, his preference for music, literature and French culture clashed with his father's militarism, resulting in Frederick William frequently beating and humiliating his young son.
  • Frederick found an ally in his sister, Wilhelmine, with whom he remained close for life.
  • Once Frederick secured the throne in 1740 after his father's death, he immediately separated from his wife and prevented Elisabeth from visiting his court in Potsdam, granting her instead Schönhausen Palace and apartments at the Berliner Stadtschloss.
  • Contrary to what his father had feared, Frederick proved himself a courageous soldier and an extremely skillful strategist.

• The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood

  • A father is defined as a male parent or individual progenitor of human offspring.
  • The adjective "paternal" refers to a father and comparatively to "maternal" for a mother.
  • Many times, fathers have a very important role in raising offspring, and the title can be given to a non-biological father that fills this role.
  • Alongside the shift from a Freudian emphasis on the role of the father to object relations theory's stress upon the mother, psychoanalysis tended to single out the search for the father, and the negative effects of the switched-off father.
  • Many fathers are married to the biological mothers of their children.

• Alexander the Great

  • Alexander III, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was born to Philip II in Pella in 356 BCE, and succeeded his father to the throne at the age of 20.
  • When he succeeded his father to the throne in 336 BCE, after Philip was assassinated, Alexander inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army.
  • He had been awarded the generalship of Greece, and used this authority to launch his father's military expansion plans.
  • He founded some 20 cities that bore his name, the most notable being Alexandria in Egypt.
  • The Macedonian phalanx, armed with the sarissa, a spear up to 20 feet long, had been developed and perfected by Alexander's father, Philip II.