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    Megan Griffith 9/19/11 2nd period Founding Father: Thomas Jefferson Many argue that Thomas Jefferson is one of the most brilliant individuals in American history and someone who lived the American Dream. Thomas Jefferson is remembered as the third President of the United States of America and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson is important to our history because his role as a founding father was crucial in the development of our early government. Thomas Jefferson was born on

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    Andy Tran Mr.Banks 10/6/2014 Were the Founding Fathers Democratic Reformers? After reading both view points of John P. Roche and Howard Zinn‚ I felt like there were more things to back up the arguments made by Zinn‚ which is one of the reasons why I think that the founding fathers were not in fact democratic reformers. The founding fathers were wealthy statesmen who worked for the best of their interests to preserve their wealth. Howard Zinn’s writing discusses the American Revolution

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    The founding fathers set up the national government to have three branches which are legislative branch‚ executive branch‚ and Judicial branch. The founding fathers made up the three branches so one branch wouldn’t take over‚ so the president didn’t get too much power over the United State‚ and that at anytime something is wrong they mad checks and balance to check one another. First‚ the founding father made sure that all the branch were equally responsible for certain things in the world. The

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    The Founding Fathers are the epitome of patriotism due to their love and devotion to their country. The Founding Fathers demonstrated this in many ways. The Founding Fathers also called themselves (and others who wanted a free country) the “Patriots”‚ and they lived up to their name. Henceforth‚ this is what also comes to mind with patriotism. “Patriotism” contains the Latin root “pater” or “patris”. This means “father”. The Founding Fathers were fatherly by signing the Declaration of Independence

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    Were The Founding Fathers Democratic Reformers? Soon after much economic change and commercial reform‚ the Founding Fathers of the United States instituted an atmosphere of liberty. Yet the means of many political leaders that brought upon this freedom among all of America proved to be questionable. Although the intentions of the Founding Fathers proved to be democratic‚ they also noted that regarding the elite. Nevertheless‚ the Founding Fathers organized a democratic government to balance

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    Values of the Founding Fathers Essay The United States of America has been recognized for multiple purposes‚ and have shown dominance in numerous factors and has also been recognized as the land of opportunity and land of the free. But what were the original intentions of our founding fathers to the United States? The founding fathers original intention were Freedom‚ Equality and Liberty and their goal was to create a government around such values. That said‚ freedom was one of the main intention

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    Professor. Samuelson History 200 Dented Hearts In Freehling’s article‚ “The Founding Fathers and Slavery”‚ he aims to show that Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries believed in ideology that all men were created equal. He also goes on to show that the Founding Fathers took preliminary measures to diminish slavery all together. Although he admits the overall process was slow and small‚ he says‚ “The impact of the Founding Fathers on slavery... must be seen in the long run” (Freehling 82). Freehling

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    Zach Blazer Final Speech May 22‚ 2013 Thesis Finale The Founding Fathers of the United States created a masterpiece. They were able to create a government held together by a Constitution that was run by the people‚ and was also able to keep the government in check by building a system that was able to change with time. The Founding Fathers were able to pull this off because they understood that human nature has not changed through history‚ and that people will look to tear down others in order

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    of the main founding for fathers of our country. Throughout his life he had a lot of things that happened and they were once in a lifetime opportunity. He had a pretty interesting and complicated childhood as a young child. Then when he was older he became something great did some amazing things that have formed our country today . This is just a little bit that our founding father‚ George Washington has to offer towards the founding of our country. This is an analysis of the founding forefather and

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    diplomat‚ political theorist‚ politician‚ civic activist‚ statesman‚ scientist‚ inventor‚ and many more things. He did many things to help the United States‚ and he even signed the constitution. Benjamin Franklin should be the second most important founding father. It was so important that he went to the constitutional convention that he was carried there in a sedan chair by people because the bumpy carriage ride on cobblestone was too rough for his old bones. Benjamin Franklin made many inventions and

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