No one was more patriotic than our founding fathers, and yet most of the prominent founding fathers were slave owners.
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How can we herald the actions of our Founding Fathers while simultaneously depriving fellow Americans of the same rights those Founding Fathers fought so hard to achieve?
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And find out what the founding fathers were really like in The Founding Fathers: Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who Started America.
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People love to quote the founding fathers to give their arguments some gravitas, but idiots on the internet help spread fake quotes from those founding fathers far and wide online.
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People love to quote the founding fathers to give their arguments some gravitas, but idiots on the internet help spread fake quotes from those founding fathers far and wide online.
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Geeking out over America's founding fathers is officially cool. 21.
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It's baseline stuff; it's Founding Fathers kind of principles here.
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The founding fathers intended using weapons for defense, not offense.
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It could hardly be otherwise, as America's Founding Fathers foresaw.
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Much about President Donald Trump would dismay the Founding Fathers.
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You know, just like the Founding Fathers would have done.
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He was the last of the founding fathers of Israel.
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At least some of the founding fathers would have approved.
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His ideas were a strong influence on America's founding fathers.
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The Founding Fathers launched the American experiment 242 years ago.
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The founding fathers were unanimous that Congress should declare war.
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He's known as one of the founding fathers of Bourbon.
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It's like the Founding Fathers' idea of the yeoman government.
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Are the founding fathers who owned slaves next in line?
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THE STONE The founding fathers weren't talking about personal wellness.
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Mr. Moore represents much of what the founding fathers despised.
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Which of these Founding Fathers did not sign the Constitution?
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Indeed, the Founding Fathers' worst nightmare is coming to pass.
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But our founding fathers would surely view S. J. Res.
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Today's supine Congress would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers.
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Is it an insult to the Founding Fathers' original intent?
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Two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers made a mistake.
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The Founding Fathers were wrong about all kinds of things.
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And since candidates are always referring to the founding fathers, find out what they were really like in The Founding Fathers: Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who Started America.
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But the elderly founding fathers seem ever more out of touch.
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Aren&apost we done with the whole idea of founding fathers?
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And why are we recognizing gender anyway with our founding fathers?
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You know, guardrails were put in place by our Founding Fathers.
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Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States.
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And apparently, it's a dish that our Founding Fathers could've eaten.
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Our founding fathers set up a government of checks and balances.
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He never acted like he was one of the Founding Fathers.
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The Founding Fathers indeed intended the Electoral College to be deliberative.
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"The Founding Fathers created a country based on fact," Schumer said.
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Eureka … we found experts on Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers.
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I don't think that's what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
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The Founding Fathers also could hardly imagine the progress we've made.
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Show that you have the courage exemplified by our founding fathers.
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But the Founding Fathers put their own American spin on it.
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Founding fathers knew the executive would need broad authority in war.
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That is not consistent with the intent of the founding fathers.
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And it's ludicrous to compare them to the true Founding Fathers.
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Knowing, for example, that the Founding Fathers were all secular deists.
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In addition to the gardens talk and tour, other spring programs include an April 10 program on the arts and letters of the founding fathers, celebrating the founding fathers as ordinary people with a passion for dancing.
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At one point I started insulting the wigs of the Founding Fathers.
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Later copies had signatures of all of 56 of the Founding Fathers.
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Our Founding Fathers were so wise, and they were very young, actually.
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I think that&aposs just what the founding fathers were all about.
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When our Founding Fathers spoke of freedom, they explicitly excluded Black people.
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The founding fathers don't need Mr. Jackson to come to their defense.
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Such a "magical" device would have been inconceivable to the Founding Fathers.
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Who can blame Europe's Founding Fathers for fearing a resurgence of fascism?
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Somehow, before CrunchBase, our Founding Fathers must have gotten their startup fix.
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Everyone will level off, perhaps just as the founding fathers wanted it.
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They flock to Hamilton because of everything the Founding Fathers never were.
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Sonny Digital: It's a couple founding fathers, but I'm one of them.
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The Founding Fathers could have drafted the Constitution to prohibit self pardons.
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In "Hamilton," two American founding fathers sing it to their young children.
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The Founding Fathers' favorite Roman was a man named Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
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The Founding Fathers clearly contemplated the importance of public access to information.
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To preserve the union, the founding fathers felt compelled to preserve slavery.
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Australia's political class remains haunted by the sins of its founding fathers.
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What could be more American than the words of the founding fathers?
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The founding fathers of environmentalism ranged from garden variety racists to eugenicists.
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This can't be the future the founding fathers envisioned for our country.
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This is not the future the founding fathers envisioned for our country.
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The Founding Fathers were realistic about the presence and popularity of demagogues.
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He invoked Martin Luther King Jr., the founding fathers and Maya Angelou.
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Digitized records of the founding fathers are available on the library's website.
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Maybe the Founding Fathers aren't rolling over in their graves after all.
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Mr. Biden instead pivoted to Mr. Trump, and invoked the founding fathers.
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The founding fathers believed in majority rule, with only a few exceptions.
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But accounting for Mr. Conrad explodes the notion of founding fathers entirely.
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Our Founding Fathers understood the immorality of foisting debt upon future generations.
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The Founding Fathers wrote explicit checks and balances into the U.S. Constitution.
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Do you love obscure references to American history and our founding fathers?
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"I've realized I just don't care about the Founding Fathers," she said.
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It has succeeded far beyond the dreams of any of our founding fathers.
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Our founding fathers did not put an age limit on the Second Amendment.
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America's founding fathers considered this method of government and decided to reject it.
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Not necessarily Founding Fathers or tech founders, but they still deserve a shoutout.
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What the founding fathers wanted was a representative democracy, not a pure democracy.
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But the Founding Fathers are just one small part of the Revolution's story.
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The founding fathers could not have envisioned such an offense to the people.
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Mass pardoning of illegal immigrants is surely not what the founding fathers intended.
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Our Founding Fathers would not accept this uncertainty and subversion of the Constitution.
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Our Founding Fathers created the Senate to be the world's most deliberative body.
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But, one might ask whether the Founding Fathers would appreciate their efforts today.
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Have the New Founding Fathers of America solved the problem of sexual assault?
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What would the Founding Fathers think of the current political drama before us?
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Indeed, the Founding Fathers would be surprised by the brouhaha over judicial appointments.
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The Founding Fathers purposely made it difficult for Congress to enact sweeping legislation.
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Think phrases like founding fathers, homeland security, and sending our children to war.
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So, the counter example is the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in spades.
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What in the hell else could the Founding Fathers have had in mind?
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These founding fathers have called the new government a menace to Polish democracy.
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The clock has run out on one of the founding fathers of tech.
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We separate the founding of this country from the slave-owning founding fathers.
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I assume this symbolized how the Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
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Did the Founding Fathers consider that a 17-year-old might be governor?
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Others are returning to safer topics, like Ronald Reagan or the founding fathers.
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The Electoral College was the subject of intense debate among the Founding Fathers.
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Goodlatte asked whether the founding fathers considered "maladministration" to be an impeachable offense.
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Our founding fathers had clear eyes when it came to assessing human nature.
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Jefferson and other founding fathers sought to guarantee the freedom of Muslims to worship.
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So it was not the Founding Fathers' intent to restrict pardons to federal crimes.
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These were the arguments that America's Founding Fathers were following and would ultimately echo.
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Our state's founding fathers' and founding mothers' early vision and daring was really breathtaking.
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That's how the Founding Fathers would want you to celebrate the long weekend, right?
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Inspired by the ambition of its Founding Fathers, its people revel in their dynamism.
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Our founding fathers wrote about a Creator who gave all human beings unalienable rights.
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In this it has disappointed to fully achieve the aspirations of its founding fathers.
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Fact is, democracy has never been easy, and our founding fathers argued about everything.
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The Founding Fathers of America, a totalitarian regime, still has control of the government.
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Of all the Founding Fathers, no one embodies the American dream better than Hamilton.
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I think our founding fathers would have wanted us to take part this way.
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Wade, he said, was wrongly decided, declaring rights that the founding fathers never intended.
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"Adams and Hamilton were sort of the loudmouths of the founding fathers," Miranda said.
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But the Founding Fathers did give tariff authority to Congress, not the White House.
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The intent of the Founding Fathers was to change the world by exporting democracy.
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Alexander Hamilton is considered as one of the founding fathers of the United States.
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The Founding Fathers, most of them anyway, were suspicious of "the people" en masse.
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Contrary to religious-right misrepresentations, our most-influential Founding Fathers were not enraptured believers.
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It's time for Congress to reassert its role as envisioned by our Founding Fathers.
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As the Founding Fathers recognized, open borders are the key to making America great.
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Australia's founding fathers, attempting to unify six colonies, didn't mention guns in the Constitution.
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This is an insult to the trust put in them by the founding fathers.
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America's Founding Fathers certainly did lead interesting, convoluted, not to say completely wackadoodle lives.
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As Pelosi invoked our Founding Fathers, she was right to appeal to history here.
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Collins: 'Amazing' that Democrats putting Founding Fathers in the impeachment jury 1:20 p.m.
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I am grateful for the American Founding Fathers (some of them were even Christians).
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His narrative begins with the founding fathers and ends with Obama and the Tea Party.
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Many founding fathers were shockingly young when the declaration of independence was signed in 1776
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It began the day our founding fathers and mothers set sail for a new world.
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The nation's Founding Fathers feared overweening state power in general and military authority in particular.
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Further proof that the venerable N.Y.T. Is one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy.
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And I think that&aposs not the way our founding fathers wanted Congress to work.
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Some of the eighteenth century founding fathers only thought English and Danish people were white.
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That initially offended user later apologized for not realizing it was the Founding Fathers' document.
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It's a lyrical ideal — a story that has been passed down from the Founding Fathers.
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Now, James Madison was kind of the nuts-and-bolts guy of the Founding Fathers.
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For this I look where our founding fathers looked: to the will of the people.
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The EU's founding fathers — Alcide de Gasperi and Altiero Spinelli — put Italy where it belongs.
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PILLSBURY: Inspired by the founding fathers that surely China wants democracy and a free market.
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So they sought religious freedom, as surely as our Founding Fathers sought freedom from taxation.
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Those same founding fathers found it important to emphasize that all religions were welcome here.
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The Founding Fathers made a lot of mistakes when they drafted the United States Constitution.
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He was the last of Israel's founding fathers and the architect of its nuclear programme.
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Oh, and it also celebrates George Washington's birthday and the other founding fathers or whatever.
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That is a role never intended when the Founding Fathers granted the press great freedom.
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Without a strong press, as our Founding Fathers knew, our democracy would be in peril.
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Our Founding Fathers fought a revolutionary war to escape the tyranny of a British king.
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The fact is, democracy has never been easy, and our founding fathers argued about everything.
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This is not the first time the founding fathers have served up inspiration to brewers.
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Our founding fathers cautioned that those who are entrusted with power must be closely watched.
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Heidi Schreck talks about "What the Constitution Means To Me" and the Founding Fathers. 2.
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The Founding Fathers had high hopes that military adventurism could be prevented through constitutional checks.
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Our Founding Fathers knew what it meant to live under the boot of imperial rule.
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The founding fathers put a few protections against this kind of behavior in the Constitution.
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Unlike our current President, the Founding Fathers, apparently, had more important matters on their minds.
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Inspired by Benjamin Franklin's birthday, we're eager for some smart guesses about the Founding Fathers.
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The belief that our government is our salvation is not what our founding fathers intended.
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They say these articles of impeachment clearly meet the standards set by the Founding Fathers.
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We are no longer living to the mission assigned to us by our Founding Fathers.
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Clearly, some of our founding fathers were very comfortable extending religious freedom to include Islam.
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The Founding Fathers intended for impeachment to serve as Congress's "essential check" on executive overreach.
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Mr. Wilkins wrote "Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism" (2001).
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Our founding fathers envisioned a government elected by the people that worked for the people.
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But we have to come together, E Pluribus Unum, that's what our founding fathers advocated.
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As you know, the Founding Fathers envisioned that elections would be primarily local in nature.
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And while few people would disavow the work of the founding fathers in creating a system of government we minorities remain loyal to, can we honestly understand that system without acknowledging the founding fathers' concerted efforts to exclude minorities and women from those guaranteed rights?
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How we got here The founding fathers tried to warn us about the dangers of polarization.
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Then again, who would have thought a musical about rapping Founding Fathers would explode on Broadway?
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It's not hard to picture the Founding Fathers enjoying a lively game of croquet in heaven.
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But they remain important as a document of online culture, created by 4chan's anonymous founding fathers.
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The New Founding Fathers control the overarching narrative while maintaining the illusion of a free press.
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It's in keeping with the "cooling saucer" theory the founding fathers envisioned for the upper chamber.
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Even our Founding Fathers celebrated the tradition of brewing, distilling, and fermenting their favorite adult beverages.
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But until then, it will remain simply a weird sex thing, like the founding fathers intended.
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Our Founding Fathers envisioned a Congress that would faithfully represent and be accountable to its constituents.
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"Hamilton is one of my favorite, probably the favorite, of the Founding Fathers," Abdul-Jabbar said.
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But at least online trolling finally influenced an American president, just as our Founding Fathers envisioned.Â
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Ahmad said India's founding fathers established it as a secular democracy, and it must remain that.
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Our Founding Fathers declared our independence based on the pursuit of life, liberty, property and happiness.
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The founding fathers set up a system of taxation at the very beginning of the country.
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The appropriations process is a critical part of the Founding Fathers' vision for our constitutional republic.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Presidents' Day and the Fourth of July for our founding fathers.
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In 2012, a Forbes reporter asked Ohanian how the Founding Fathers might have reacted to Reddit.
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Burr fled and was vilified, not just by his fellow Founding Fathers, but historians as well.
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The Vory were part of and amongst the stakeholders—the founding fathers of the New Russia.
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Hamilton tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Nancy Pelosi has some thoughts on what America's Founding Fathers would say of President Donald Trump.
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Our Founding Fathers fought a war for independence, so they understood the human costs of conflict.
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And, like America's founding fathers, David Ben-Gurion was the embodiment of his nation's complicated beginnings.
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The founding fathers sought to ensure that residents in states with smaller populations were not ignored.
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In contrast, they claimed to be "constitutional conservatives" -- faithful to the vision of the Founding Fathers.
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The founding fathers never intended the office of president to be a full-time exclusive job.
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Though Israel was founded less than 70 years ago, there aren't any "founding fathers" left alive.
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That doesn't mean the founding fathers thought congressional salary more important than the freedom of speech.
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Instead of seeking out a combat role like many other young Founding Fathers, he went into politics.
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But "Hamilton" -- the critically acclaimed musical about the nation's founding fathers -- has been Trump's most frequent target.
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The Founding Fathers were obsessed with foreign nations interfering with our elections and influencing our domestic debates.
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WILLIAMS: Well, if the founding fathers are watching via space or psych something, don&apost be offended.
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Indeed, America's Founding Fathers deliberately sought to include Islam as they established the principles of religious liberty.
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This gives me a chuckle when considering the Constitution, since many of the founding fathers were farmers.
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The judge wrote that the issues at hand stretched back to questions addressed by the Founding Fathers.
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I grew up admiring him as one of the founding fathers of modern politics in his country.
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"Please think of our founding fathers as you listen," he said as he began his closing statement.
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The founding fathers were accused by some historians of writing the Constitution to protect their landed wealth.
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It's the background that all of us have done with regard to what the Founding Fathers expected.
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America's Founding Fathers, particularly James Madison, believed that constitutional intricacy could solve the problem of the masses.
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Ten years ago this year, Derek Waters became one of the Founding Fathers of DIY internet comedy.
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THE Founding Fathers thought that operating a postal service was a crucial responsibility of the federal government.
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Many lines from the musical come to us direct from the mouths of the Founding Fathers themselves.
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Fans of Hamilton don't flock to the musical because of the way it transforms the Founding Fathers.
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In Article I of the Constitution, the founding fathers clearly states that Congress shall make all laws.
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The Founding Fathers never intended unelected bureaucrats in federal agencies to make sweeping changes to existing law.
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The founding fathers of tech, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, are getting their own musical on Broadway.
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The founding fathers dreamed of a country free of estate taxes and rich with capital gains loopholes.
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The Founding Fathers did not trust the popular will when it came to electing the American president.
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In an April 22019 column entitled "Critics of originalism don't know their history, or Founding Fathers," Prof.
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Feature The producer Jeffrey Seller struck gold with Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit about the founding fathers.
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That is in direct contravention of the power placed in the high court by the founding fathers.
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"The founding fathers could never have imagined what the right to bear arms would become," he said.
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The Founding Fathers did not create Electoral College electors to be potted plants who simply ratify results.
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The Founding Fathers intended government to be open and transparent except when national security was at risk.
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A movement does not stop when one of its founding fathers goes abroad—it only gets bigger!
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In other words, if the US electoral system is rigged, it was rigged by the Founding Fathers.
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Partisan attacks, he noted in a half-hour speech, flourished in the days of the Founding Fathers.
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The founding fathers and the Constitution they left for us specifically say that the judiciary is nonpartisan.
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The Founding Fathers loved the pawpaw fruit — so how come almost nobody today has heard of it?
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Our Founding Fathers wrote in the Constitution that every 10 years the population is to be counted.
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We've heard lots of calls on Congress to behave more like the founding fathers in recent weeks.
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America&aposs founding fathers hoped that military adventurism abroad could be restrained through checks on executive power.
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The founding fathers are praised, and the fact that they were slave owners seems to be forgotten.
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It is true that the Founding Fathers were flawed men who were responsible for profound human suffering.
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The Point: Kavanaugh got confirmed by the rules of the Senate as outlined by the Founding Fathers.
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Ending forced arbitration is a simple question of access to justice, a principle our founding fathers cherished.
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The Brooklyn-based artist twists reverence for the Founding Fathers into a carnival masque of unwieldy ghouls.
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As it turns out, many of America's Founding Fathers were quite young when the Revolutionary War broke out.
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BERGMAN: Together, that`s how the Founding Fathers imagined it and that`s how it needs to be.
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Plus, the President makes a trip to the Volunteer State, a shakeup in Missouri and Founding Fathers trivia.
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Despite the outrage, Kaepernick is doing just what the Founding Fathers asked Americans to do: hold America accountable.
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Yet the founding fathers were not at all terrified by change, but instead embraced it in the Constitution.
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Liberals don't want "we the people" to amend the Constitution in the ways prescribed by the founding fathers.
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"The founding fathers in their wisdom actually did many things right, including creating the electoral college," Simmons said.
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Indeed, our Founding Fathers envisioned and designed a system of government that encourages robust debate amongst elected officials.
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The Founding Fathers, however, were also aware of the inverse: that the republic could not withstand drastic inequality.
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Schumer believes in the vision of the Senate that the Founding Fathers conceived and the American people demand.
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Our Founding Fathers purposely structured it that way to ensure that no one branch would become too powerful.
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The Founding Fathers designed the pardon as a tool for presidents to resolve political issues and maintain order.
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I haven't seen the "Hamilton" musical yet, but he was probably the most capable of the founding fathers.
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Partisanship can be traced back to the founding fathers when a two-party system first emerged in 1796.
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The process is usually time consuming, messy, and controversial, just as the Founding Fathers intended it to be.
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In the musical, the lullaby is sung by two of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
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And what was the response from anti-Federalists, the founding fathers who vocalized their concerns with the Constitution?
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The most controversial thing Hamilton's America dares to note is that most of the Founding Fathers kept slaves.
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Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, many of the founding fathers were slammed in debt by British banks and merchants.
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The founding fathers built a system of checks and balances, and they viewed rapid change akin to tyranny.
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Shimon was one of the founding fathers of Israel who became one of the world's great elder-statesmen.
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They effectively constitute a fourth branch of government, independent of the three branches created by the Founding Fathers.
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And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
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David Ricardo, one of the founding fathers of economics, wrote about the disruptive effects of machinery in 1821!
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"The founding fathers created the criminal justice system to be a largely secular criminal justice system," he said.
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Conservatives have fought for schools to promote patriotism, highlight the influence of Christianity and celebrate the founding fathers.
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"It's a sobering reality, one that would leave the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves," she said.
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This is a direct affront to our Founding Fathers, who wanted America to be strong, independent and free.
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The founding fathers provided three tools to stop a runaway presidency -- elections, impeachment, and invoking the 25th amendment.
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To the founding fathers, we're grateful and mindful of our responsibility; of our purpose; and of our duty.
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Despite the historical emphasis on the founding fathers, the American Revolution was not led by white men alone.
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Later on, some of the Founding Fathers managed to stoke interest in the Illuminati in the United States.
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Open town halls harken back to the high-minded civic (and civil) debates we imagine of our founding fathers.
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But the humility and modesty embraced by the Founding Fathers have been replaced by cocky, reality TV-style braggadocio.
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AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS envisioned a republic in which free-thinking voters would carefully consider the proposals of office-seekers.
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Exactly here in Rome, 59 years ago, the founding fathers signed an agreement to give birth to European institutions.
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It matters because the founding fathers drew up the impeachment clause with precisely this sort of malfeasance in mind.
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America has always alternated between naive optimism and deep anxiety about the future, going back to the founding fathers.
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The truths the Founding Fathers held to be self-evident had not seemed so to anyone before the Reformation.
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Our Founding Fathers understood the value of that freedom and gave us a system to preserve and protect it.
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The Founding Fathers were not unaware of the possibility that a demagogue or a knave might win the presidency.
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In the early 20th century, the founding fathers of relativity theory and quantum mechanics were trained to read philosophy.
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Numerous other biographies of the Founding Fathers soon followed, as did a 22016 biopic based on McCullough's Adams biography.
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Typically his opinions are backed up with memorised but highly selective references to the constitution and the founding fathers.
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We revere the founding fathers as patriots and geniuses, but deride the brilliant, enduring, self-replicating machine they invented.
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The writings of the Founding Fathers are among those Mr Moore likes to recite, by heart and at length.
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We must pay heed to the words of our 35th president and to the vision of our Founding Fathers.
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The idea of governing through popular referenda or the populace generally was quite strongly rejected by our founding fathers.
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Which the founding fathers had to be, on some level, as well as those noble patriots from our schoolbooks.
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This Fourth of July will mark 243 years after the Founding Fathers declared our nation's independence from King George.
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There exists a myth that our Founding Fathers were professional farmers who happened to be politicians on the side.
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The opponents of a wealth tax cackle at the absurdity, but it is not what the Founding Fathers intended.
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Franklin, like many other founding fathers, was once a slaveholder himself before he became involved in the abolitionist movement.
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"Thinking that the founding fathers are better than I am, or I'm better than they are — it's just dumb."
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Lin-Manuel Miranda sees hip-hop as the music of the American Revolution — the vernacular of the founding fathers.
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The tall teenagers amble through narrow hallways lined with pictures of the Founding Fathers and inspirational quotations from Scripture.
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It's a witch hunt, and I don't agree with that, and I don't think our founding fathers would either.
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Our founding fathers knew firsthand the dangers of monarchy and built checks and balances designed to make change difficult.
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It was exactly the sort of disaster the founding fathers would have pictured if their worst nightmares featured computers.
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It began the day our Founding Fathers and Mothers set sail for a New World, fleeing oppression and intolerance.
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Our founding fathers got this right; the choice to have an abortion or a child belonged to the woman.
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This is something that is not the myth that we tell people about, the founding fathers and those things.
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Mr. Chernow's book was widely praised for its portrayal of one of the Founding Fathers when it was published.
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But it soon gives way to the Purge universe, in which a group called the "New Founding Fathers," a.k.a.
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Unmoderated internet echo chambers are a danger that the founding fathers never envisioned when they wrote the First Amendment.
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Yes, 1969 yielded us the brilliant "1776," but, decades later, we require a new celebration of our founding fathers.
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I'm me because I have two sets of founding fathers who carved forth from their great continents new nations.
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But, it's still important to remember that the Founding Fathers had this same debate more than 200 years ago.
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It's something I've been reminded of over the past month, as several of the industries' founding fathers have passed.
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This Presidents' Day, we should reflect on the reasons our Founding Fathers enshrined this right in our First Amendment.
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It began the day our Founding Fathers and mothers set sail for a new world fleeing oppression and intolerance.
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" In the time of the Founding Fathers, Turley said, "bribery was not this overarching standard that Chairman Schiff indicated.
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At a caucus meeting this week, Pelosi referenced writings by founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton, and then asked Rep.
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It began the day our Founding Fathers and Mothers set sail for a New World, fleeing oppression and intolerance.
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Our founding fathers recognized that the maintenance of our democracy would require a population educated in basic civic responsibility.
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He said Europe had to again "take up the mysticism" of its founding fathers and overcome divisions and borders.
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They loathe the Founding Fathers, and want to seize government control over as much of the economy as possible.
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SINGAPORE — Wednesday marked the first since one of Singapore's founding fathers and first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, passed away.
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It also helps that the inauguration ceremony overlooks monuments for founding fathers and former Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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Our Founding Fathers understood this and designed the Constitution to distribute power so no one person could establish a dictatorship.
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The bill is expected to be finalized without any public hearings, just as the Founding Fathers would have wanted it.
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"The argument is that we don't know what [the founding fathers] meant by that phrase 'natural born' citizenship," Duggin said.
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The founding fathers were worried about direct elections of the first and second most powerful person in our federal government.
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Before the Cabinet meeting he went after the Constitution's "phony" emoluments clause, suggesting even the Founding Fathers were against him.
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The founding fathers probably never imagined that late night comedians — not Congress — would be the greatest check on presidential power.
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"HAMILTON", the hip-hop Broadway musical about one of America's founding fathers, has broken all sorts of box-office records.
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"Our founding fathers built the Electoral College to safeguard the American people from the dangers of a demagogue," Sheen says.
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The founding fathers of this country, chief among them Alexander Hamilton, worried that democracies had historically been weak and transitory.
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Resurgent interest in the founding fathers in 2016 can't ignore the fact that most of them were bigots and slaveowners.
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Alexander Hamilton, one of America's Founding Fathers, justifiably worried that raising tariffs would provoke trading partners to do the same.
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Congress is in danger of ruining the separate-but-equal 3 branches of government our founding fathers so wisely created.
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Yoshua Bengio, one of the founding fathers of the movement, calls him "one of the rising stars of deep learning."
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Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop musical about the founding fathers, has a spinoff.
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But the Founding Fathers never intended a secret police force to be an independent fourth branch of the federal government.
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Some of them say national monuments should honor war heroes or the Founding Fathers, not a symbol of gay rights.
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Founding fathers aside, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of "Hamilton," has said that he considers her the show's smartest character.
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"The Founding Fathers intended the electoral college to stop an unfit man from becoming President," they write on their website.
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Finally, our Founding Fathers saw the wisdom of letting states police, prosecute, and decide their own sentences for local crimes.
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"Our founding fathers did not want dictators running America," said Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House.
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In the United States, the White, male founding fathers have shaped perceptions of America's foundation as British and Western European.
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When he promoted the book, "Dreams of Our Founding Fathers," people told him to run for office, Casey told Mahoney.
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It is a non-color-blind decision, which is antithetical to the merit-based admissions, which the founding fathers established.
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He was a populist hero, and is still celebrated with Thomas Jefferson as the founding fathers of the Democratic Party.
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The founding fathers anticipated this might one day happen, and the articles of impeachment allege that it is happening now.
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That said, the books did not deal frankly with the fact that many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.
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They were also a tribute to the founding fathers' respect for freedom of speech and freedom of religion, he said.
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During the revolution, the founding fathers had that fierce urgency too and drew just as heavily on the Exodus story.
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Our founding fathers' fear of tyranny drove them to great lengths to ensure a separation of powers in our Constitution.
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Nadler questioned witness Noah Feldman about fellow law professor Jonathan Turley's earlier answers on the Founding Fathers' definition of bribery.
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PHILADELPHIA — In Signers' Hall, at the National Constitution Center, the writer and actress Heidi Schreck walked among the Founding Fathers.
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" Ajay Sharma, 31, an IT worker from London was able to identify Hamilton as "basically one of the founding fathers.
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In practice, however, the Founding Fathers knew that their approval would be crucial to the success of the new government.
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Other backers include Alan Kay, one of the founding fathers of the PC, and Yoshua Bengio, another top deep learning researcher.
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Thomas Jefferson and all the Founding Fathers profoundly rejected the government-as-source-of-freedom argument, but Judge Kavanaugh accepts it.
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You could even say he's one of the founding fathers of America's student debt crisis and its culture of surveillance capitalism.
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The board has also argued over climate change and the influence of Moses and other biblical figures on the Founding Fathers.
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When people celebrate Thomas Jefferson as one of the country's Founding Fathers, they don't always acknowledge that he was a slaveowner.
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Perhaps the company's founding fathers saw the need to continually reinvent itself, or maybe it was just Edison's obsession with experimentation.
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We see the Constitution as a beginning for our country, but for the Founding Fathers it seemed like a last chance.
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It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Yoeli is one of the founding fathers of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry.
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I doubt that the US Constitution could have been written without our Founding Fathers "stealing" from Montesquieu and other Enlightenment thinkers.
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Kahneman was awarded the Nobel prize for economics in 1992 and is considered one of the founding fathers of behavioral finance.
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The last of Israel's founding fathers, Peres then served in several more cabinets before the Knesset, Israel's parliament, elected him president.
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The villains are the New Founding Fathers of America and the puppets, witting and unwitting, they use to enact their agenda.
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In an office at Carnegie Mellon University, relics from the founding fathers of artificial intelligence aren't rotting away or collecting dust.
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Obama himself seems aware of the conflict and has been careful to quote the Founding Fathers according to the official documents.
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We reach back to the Founding Fathers for succor, but the system we have is no longer the one they designed.
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Instead of selecting a president based on how many votes they receive, the Founding Fathers established what's called the Electoral College.
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They discovered that the instrument, also known as the armonica, had been invented by Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers.
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So does that help our chances of seeing Lin-Manuel Miranda rap about our founding fathers until we're moved to tears?
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Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and the rest of The Founding Fathers created a "revolution" every two years in America.
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We must also participate in our system of government by voting in November and defending the intent of our Founding Fathers.
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Shimon was one of the founding fathers of Israel who became one of the world's great elder statesmen – a beautiful man.
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The Founding Fathers, by contrast, generally resisted the creation of standing armies, which they associated with dictatorship and the British crown.
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Musk has repeatedly described Benjamin Franklin, one of the US's founding fathers and an accomplished inventor, as one of his heroes.
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The latter evolved over many centuries and our Founding Fathers were well-steeped in this history as they created the Constitution.
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The founding fathers' hold on the presidency was coming to an end and there was only one party: the Democratic-Republicans.
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When the Constitution was first written, significant compromise occurred among America's Founding Fathers and many policy compromises have occurred ever since.
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Our Founding Fathers recognized this danger explicitly, and so they separated the power of the purse from the sword of enforcement.
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The Founding Fathers never envisioned a black man being president or massive social spending programs to help the poor and sick.
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The cult of the founding fathers has become masochistic, as we invoke them to rebuke ourselves for having such petty politicians.
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Instead of silencing students, schools should promote student voice and a robust exchange of ideas, just as our Founding Fathers intended.
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Several of the objects included in the show were priceless, and one section included Bibles previously owned by the Founding Fathers.
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Bayh was the first man since the United States' 18th-century founding fathers to author two ratified amendments to the Constitution.
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If you are not a white, male landowner as envisioned by the founding fathers, the Constitution has little to offer you.
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In rejecting a monarchy, it is clear that the founding fathers had no intention of placing a president above the law.
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This nation was built on white supremacy and toxic manhood, despite those words of the founding fathers about us being equal.
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Readers may be surprised to learn that the Founding Fathers considered intellectual property worthy of special note when writing the Constitution.
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Consider the Founding Fathers, a majority of whom were under the age of 40 in 1776, including Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton.
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The Republicans' witness, professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University Law School, said the "Founding Fathers" wanted impeachment used sparingly.
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This unilateral power to fight wars and risk the lives of brave young American is not what the Founding Fathers intended.
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Literary legends and founding fathers are fine and good, but it's Baltimore's unique brand of creative strangeness that kept me hooked.
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When the Founding Fathers designed the federal system, not paying too much attention to voters was a feature, not a bug.
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Meanwhile, careers started exploding: Sherman became the musical director of " Sesame Street "; Miranda applied his freestyling skills to the Founding Fathers .
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"They shouldn't be seen as counterculture to America, but right in line with the ideas of our founding fathers," he said.
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The Founding Fathers, at the height of the American revolution, understood that without whistleblowers the newly born democracy could not survive.
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Moore can quote the Founding Fathers at length; Trump ... doesn't seem likely to have that rhetorical skill set in his repertoire.
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America's founding fathers, influenced by the French enlightenment, were determined not to let European-style religious wars tear their young republic apart.
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In his comment at a town hall meeting, King argued that doing so would devalue the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Sutskever is a protege of Geoff Hinton, one of the founding fathers of the deep learning movement, who now works for Google.
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Likewise, the Founding Fathers' remedy of constitutional amendment has been rendered all but impossible by the polarization and hyperpartisanship afflicting our system.
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He dislikes Hamilton's refusal to talk about slavery, because the Founding Fathers the musical talks about didn't really deal with slavery either.
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" Videos promoting their products strike a strong patriotic tone, with one referring to the Founding Fathers as a "bunch of amazing guys.
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All but two of IS's 28 founding fathers are believed to have been killed, and Mr Baghdadi is struggling to find replacements.
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New York (CNN)Broadway blockbuster "Hamilton" has been praised for casting mostly black and Latino performers in place of America's founding fathers.
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Read on for who each Tech CEO would be if he — and yes, most are he — were one of the Founding Fathers.
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Many of the Founding Fathers, for what it's worth, understood the risk of such a polarized system and hoped to avoid it.
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Mahaffee noted that many of the earliest Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, had various business interests as plantation owners.
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This Presidents Day, we're giving our readers something the Founding Fathers could only dream of: exclusive deals on headphones, earbuds, and speakers.
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Among our masses lies the same fervor that our founding fathers brought here: a fervor for a democracy that represents our interests.
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Indeed, it would have never occurred to the Founding Fathers to oppose a retired officer holding a political office of any sort.
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The Founding Fathers clearly understood that a concentration of power by one entity or one individual was a threat to personal liberty.
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Like our Founding Fathers, the president must be willing to sacrifice his own self-interests for the interests of the American people.
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"HAMILTON", a hip-hop musical about one of America's founding fathers and the architect of its financial system, is an unlikely smash.
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"Hamilton," the groundbreaking hip-hop musical about the founding fathers, has been nominated for 16 Tony Awards, the most in Broadway history.
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Hence, there is no better time to reexamine the true intentions of the founding fathers on the power of the national government.
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The founding fathers understood this as well, and structured the constitutional system of government to insulate the judiciary from changing political tides.
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Intellectual property rights have their own clause in the Constitution because our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of encouraging invention and innovation.
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Dray focuses particularly on the story of Daniel Boone, whose cultural impact he places on the same level as the Founding Fathers.
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The founding fathers sought to guarantee Europe's peace by keeping France and Germany, the centuries-old sworn enemies, off each other's throats.
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"Look, DiCaprio has suddenly decided he's James Madison and Thomas Jefferson re-writing the early documents," he said, referencing two Founding Fathers.
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Graham had started a book on the Founding Fathers but never finished it, and ran for elected office several times without success.
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Critic's Pick Daniel Glenn's astutely goofy portrait of legislative gridlock in the Plymouth Colony casts women as some seriously conflicted founding fathers.
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He appealed to common religious principles, the creed of our founding fathers and a common language of love to drive out prejudice.
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"Here's the thing: The founding fathers devised a system meant to move slowly when the country was deeply divided," Mr. Axelrod said.
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By the time Kenya held its first competitive election, in 2002, political leadership had passed from Kenya's founding fathers to their sons.
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According to some historians, the Founding Fathers were moved to write the Declaration of Independence by groundless fears of a British plot.
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Preventing rule by decree or coercion is exactly why the founding fathers put a system of checks and balances into the Constitution.
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Some of the books lacked meaningful discussion of the fact that founding fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were slave owners.
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America's founding fathers wisely designated courts of law as the place where claims of criminal conduct such as sexual assault are resolved.
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The Founding Fathers may have envisioned governing as a part-time job handled by those who had been successful in other arenas.
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"There are three founding fathers of the Federal Republic," Fest said, referring to the first two postwar chancellors and the soccer triumph.
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They have appropriated and twisted the words of the Founding Fathers to claim this ideology is at the core of American values.
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A conservative Washington Post columnist wrote Thursday that the Founding Fathers had President Trump in mind when they added the impeachment clause.
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"He is precisely the sort of person whom the Founding Fathers had in mind when they included the impeachment clause," she writes.
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"He was one of the founding fathers of the U.S.," said Alex Sillitoe, 30, a design-firm art director from Anglesey, Wales.
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Accept the facts, the prime fact, the fact of an imaginary God, and we will realize the dream of the Founding Fathers.
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So by the time the Founding Fathers were writing down the Constitution, the broad definition of the term was fairly well established.
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It's like waking up early: Founding Fathers and faulty science aside, there's no good reason to be holier-than-thou about it.
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It would be a long weekend of founding fathers — a much more historically distant racism, prettied up by bucolic gardens and Corinthian columns.
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One group stands in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founding fathers, who favoured smaller government and less concentration in business.
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The founding fathers could not have been clearer about the existential threat that foreign interference in our elections and domestic debates could create.
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The Declaration of Independence may say that all men are created equal, but the nation's founding fathers weren't exactly practicing what they preached.
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The yard signs reference the rivalry between Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr — the central drama of the new hit musical Hamilton.
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The point is, what the founding fathers considered necessary freedoms to protect a free state is changing dramatically—and political confusion is abundant.
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"This is the Jesus of the Founding Fathers, and this is the key to a safe and secure America from tyranny," he said.
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Trump is right that the Founding Fathers were against the idea of any President trading on the office of the United States presidency.
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It is the reason why the founding fathers of America were determined to make the Supreme Court independent of the executive and legislature.
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As one of the founding fathers of BDSM, Marston had an innate understanding of the sexual appeal that a dominant woman could have.
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No one knows for sure when ice cream made its way to the US, but at least a few founding fathers were fans.
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HE OUTLIVED all his country's other founding fathers, but failed in what he most yearned for: to lead it into a lasting peace.
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And when the Founding Fathers allowed Americans to buy and sell their fellow humans as property — America's original sin — we corrected this injustice.
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Even our founding fathers demonstrated that spirit when they challenged the status quo of the British monarchy to "start up" our great country.
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I agree with the Founding Fathers by putting trust in the People and States rather than a centralized group of bureaucrats in Washington.
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The Founding Fathers had a vision for the nation: that the president lead the country as a whole, as a unit, as one.
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Well not founding fathers, but rediscovering the sound and rebuilding the sound and stuff and bringing it up to where it's at today.
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And if it's a constitutional issue, you look at what the founding fathers were thinking about, and the Constitution applies only to that.
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Our national healing cannot move forward if even well-meaning leaders don't recognize the role our Founding Fathers played in seeding white supremacy.
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The nostalgic vignette accommodates a myth of national origin that imagines a time of harmony within an all-white nation of founding fathers.
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This hip-hop musical about America's founding fathers has dominated the cultural conversation, raked in awards and been celebrated at the White House.
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Our Founding Fathers identified the principles important to the bedrock of our democracy; they included an anticorruption measure known as the Emolument Clause.
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Naturally, this new Washington is more about pumping up himself and his achievements than spreading the credit around to the other founding fathers.
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The unfortunate fact of current political life is that the measure of comity that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers is nowhere present.
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Emanating from debate among our Founding Fathers, the Electoral College has played a vital role over the past two centuries, he points out.
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That is why the Founding Fathers gave the federal government very little power, and reserved the vast majority of it to the states.
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This stands starkly in contrast to the voices of James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and a plethora of our nation's Founding Fathers.
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I don't understand how you stand to the side What did Hamilton and the other founding fathers write in the 85 Federalists Papers?
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"Few people realize that it was John Jay who introduced Gilbert Stuart to George Washington and the other founding fathers," Ms. Clary said.
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The current Broadway cast features Hispanic and black actors as the founding fathers, and includes Asian-American and white actors in other roles.
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In their quest for personal power, past presidents have expanded the power of the office far beyond the worst fears of Founding Fathers.
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The director Garry Hynes leads a more or less revolutionary cast, including Santino Fontana, John Behlmann and John Larroquette as several founding fathers.
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This is basic Founding Fathers issues here, and people want to treat it like it's equal to the funding decisions about LSU football.
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Our Founding Fathers also encouraged the maintenance of mutually beneficial trade relationships with other nations while forewarning us not to become over-entangled.
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"What do you think the founding fathers had in mind when they gave it to the state legislatures?" he said of redistricting powers.
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His most recent album, "Pieces of a Man," draws inspiration from one of the genre's founding fathers: the Chicago-born Gil Scott Heron.
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The Red Aristocrats want the C.C.P. and the state sector to control markets and corporations, a carry-over from their Marxist founding fathers.
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In other words, the way things are now isn't a crisis; it's government working the way the founding fathers and the Constitution intended.
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Schiff also invoked Alexander Hamilton in his argument, saying Trump acted in a way Hamilton and the other Founding Fathers would have feared.
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Peres, one of Israel's founding fathers who had spent decades working toward peace with the Palestinians, died Wednesday at the age of 93.
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"The founding fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his personal interests above those of the country: impeachment," it said.
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Our founding fathers never intended for the federal government to act as a central authority, dictating every policy set in the United States.
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Ultimately, the checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers to shield our democracy from a Trump-like figure are working as intended.
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As our Constitution and Founding Fathers fully intended, trade policy is too important to be left solely to the discretion of the president.
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Sitaraman calls these "class warfare constitutions," and argues that the founding fathers of the United States found another way, a republic of equals.
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When the settlement movement began, David Ben-Gurion, one of the Zionist founding fathers and Israel's first prime minister, was just leaving politics.
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Our Founding Fathers understood this point when they gave the president the power to grant clemency, such as the one Obama granted Josephine.
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" As daunting as the challenges may feel today, he said, they were "in no way comparable to those faced by our founding fathers.
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That's also why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's argument positing, "It is a brave person who contradicts the wisdom of the Founding Fathers," fails.
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Formerly known as Ottomotto, Otto was created by Levandowski, a former Alphabet employee, who was one of the founding fathers of autonomous vehicle technologies.
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More than any other recent presidential campaign, 2016 has been driven by psychological forces far removed from the optimistic rationality of the Founding Fathers.
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Instead, the ideal of separation of powers between the branches and a desire to minimize corruption were the constant concerns of the Founding Fathers.
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And I saw the genius of the Founding Fathers most vividly of all in a family visit to Philadelphia a couple of years ago.
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The Founding Fathers wanted to build a country in which a stranger with a good idea would have the chance to make a fortune.
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Gordon Wood, an American historian, argues that America's founding fathers were obsessed with the problem of corruption, which they believed had doomed earlier republics.
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If the Founding Fathers had iPhones, we're certain they would have celebrated Independence Day using Kim Kardashian West's new 4th of July-themed Kimoji.
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The Founding Fathers of Europe deliberately removed a great deal of decision-making from the hands of the (nation-bounded and short-sighted) public.
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I woke up today equally disgusted - chants like 'send her back' are ugly, wrong, & would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers.
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Huawei's vice president for Europe, Abraham Liu, gave a speech this morning proclaiming that America's founding fathers would be alarmed by President Trump's actions.
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What would the Founding Fathers have thought of a national government that empowers an individual to take land without congressional action or local control?
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You do not have to be a constitutional scholar to appreciate what our Founding Fathers sought to accomplish when they wrote the Emoluments Clause.
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The Founding Fathers declared independence in part because they believed that England's effort to tighten control over its colonies concealed a more malicious agenda.
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King, Scalia dissented, insisting that the founding fathers of the country would strongly object to the random gathering of DNA without limit of scope.
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Schiff had found himself reflecting lately on the founding fathers and whether, in creating coequal branches of government, they had sufficiently accounted for factionalism.
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The world turned upside down when Hamilton, the outrageously popular musical about the infamous feud between two of our country's founding fathers, hit Broadway.
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Only long-lasting, structural change will reestablish the level of equality that both Harrington and the Founding Fathers saw as necessary for a republic.
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The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves at this latest violation of the norms we have fought for over nearly 250 years.
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True Conservatism likes to portray itself as part of an unbroken tradition running back through Ronald Reagan to Barry Goldwater and the Founding Fathers.
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"The Founding Fathers didn't see a need to declare one," Dr. Wayne Wright, a professor of language and literacy at Purdue University, told CNN.
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The Founding Fathers (presented here with wooden teeth and all) never intended for our federal system to be as polarized as it is today.
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I woke up today equally disgusted - chants like "send her back" are ugly, wrong, & would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers.
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Freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution because the Founding Fathers knew a democracy cannot exist without it.
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Newt Gingrich used to say, the Founding Fathers wanted one house of Congress to always be running for their political lives every two years.
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Despite the lack of a track in their own country, Britons, as with so many sports, can claim to have been the founding fathers.
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Indeed, the Founding Fathers created the separation of the legislative and executive branches so that different policies and viewpoints could be discussed and adopted.
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You know, I've always thought that our Founding Fathers are probably rolling in their graves watching how hard we've made it to pass legislation.
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While this phase may risk the "excesses of democracy," as the Founding Fathers fretted, new technologies also represent our best hope for fixing democracy.
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I imagined the founding fathers inhaling ample amounts of opium while they devised our nation's blueprint, and for some reason a spittoon was involved.
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Little was written in those texts about the brutality they were fleeing from, or that many of the Founding Fathers were themselves slave owners.
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Nevala-Lee's warts-and-all portrait paints Asimov — known to his fans as the Good Doctor — more sympathetically than the genre's other founding fathers.
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"They were among the founding fathers of the torture program," said Walter B. Ruiz, the lawyer for Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the defendants.
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John Batman, considered one of Melbourne's founding fathers, was accused of involvement in the massacre of Aboriginal people in Tasmania during the early 1800s.
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For now, the challenge for House committees is to use the mechanism, providing by the founding fathers, to reassert abiding principles of democratic governance.
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When writing the U.S. Constitution, our Founding Fathers were very deliberate in the balance of power they gave to the branches of our government.
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"I think presidents of both parties have been trying to usurp the authority that our founding fathers wanted to remain in Congress," Paul said.
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She said everyone had now seen what the founding fathers could not imagine: a president blatantly abusing the Constitution he has sworn to protect.
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She said everyone had now seen what the founding fathers could not imagine: a president blatantly abusing the Constitution he has sworn to protect.
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"The founding fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his personal interests above those of the country: impeachment," the report said.
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But if the founding fathers were here now, they'd be like, 'Take that orange ape and throw him in the harbor with the tea!
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" "If you take a look at what the Founding Fathers were concerned about, it was the interference by foreign governments in our political system.
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The book details how the founding fathers debated the United States' structural and operational systems, including the American legal system and national banking system.
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We are confident that our Founding Fathers, when writing the Second Amendment, never contemplated assault rifles would be sold to the general public anyway.
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Published well before Hamilton made multiracial Founding Fathers seem ordinary, the cover depicts his torso wrapped in an 18th-century neck scarf and jacket.
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The Assange indictment, whether it results in prosecution or not, has crossed a legal Rubicon that our founding fathers warned should never even be approached.
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In an interview with Refinery29, Rourke compared Mary Queen of Scots to the musical Hamilton, which re-imagines America's Founding Fathers as people of color.
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Our Founding Fathers knew it: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost," Thomas Jefferson wrote.
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The Constitution written by the Founding Fathers has been able to survive crooked politicians, the Civil War, two world wars, economic depression and international terror.
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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. founding fathers "would be appalled" by a Department of Justice request to unlock an encrypted iPhone, Apple Inc (AAPL.
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"It also symbolizes our determination to continue the march toward justice and the 'more perfect union' envisioned by the founding fathers on these very streets."
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It spurred a reckoning for a tourist-friendly city that was once a gathering place for American revolutionaries, including several founding fathers who enslaved people.
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The premise of all Purge films is that a new political regime called the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) has mandated an annual purge.
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During a conversation between sets in the Vanguard office, they characterized their stewardship of the orchestra as a matter of respect for its founding fathers.
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New York (CNN)Former "Hamilton" star Lin-Manuel Miranda made a huge name for himself by rapping the history of America's founding fathers on Broadway.
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The Founding Fathers knew their monetary history, and knew the proclivity of governments to debase coinage until it contained paltry amounts of gold or silver.
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"I think that the founding fathers wanted politics to be a communal activity, and over the past few years we have lost that," Sage said.
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The peace delegates were led by stately, elderly former President John Tyler, a slave-owning Virginia patrician old enough to have known some Founding Fathers.
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"The eagle for Native Americans Indians wasn't the raptor bird of our Founding Fathers, but the one that flew closest to God," said Ms. Raudenbush.
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" Francis urged leaders to refer to the Continent's founding fathers, who "dared to change radically the models that had led only to violence and destruction.
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"Andrew Jackson was the first regular guy president and he was a kind of response to the more aristocratic, elitist founding fathers," he tells me.
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Despite the constant touring, a devoted global following and a critical reputation as founding fathers of punk rock, they never quite managed to break out.
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A history buff, Scalise said America's Founding Fathers "put it all on the line" and "risked their lives" to fight for independence from the British.
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Mr. Flanagan is one of the founding fathers of the New York hard-core punk scene, although he was still a child at the time.
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Historically, successful republics had always been small in size, but the Founding Fathers were establishing a republic they hoped would eventually stretch sea to sea.
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Shelby noted that if reporters were going to judge Russell on his civil rights stance then they would also need to reevaluate the Founding Fathers.
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The Founding Fathers feared above virtually all other things that European colonial powers would try to subvert the nascent American republic for their own ends.
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I recently tweeted that the Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they saw America today, and I wasn't speaking in hyperbole.
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The nation's original politicians — the Founding Fathers — rank near the top of a list of things Americans say symbolize the best about the United States.
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It is imperative to use these findings to introduce corrections to the process, in order to align it again with the Founding Fathers' profound wisdom.
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Miranda: That'll be the note that goes with the school productions: If this show ends up looking like the actual founding fathers, you messed up.
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However, we cannot deny that the grand representation of America's founding fathers and other wealthy, white historical figures has impacted our nation's conception of history.
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But it's all because that original crumbly, oily brick of chocolate was beloved enough by Founding Fathers to firmly wedge itself into the American foodscape.
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That really freaked me out, I was like, why would the Founding Fathers care so much about bankruptcy, enough to put it in the Constitution?
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Better yet, Trump should simply heed the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, who demanded a "uniform system of bankruptcies" when they gave Congress its powers.
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The interest in America's founding fathers is tied up with a thirst to know how America became a democratic and global power, Mr. Liu said.
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Independence Day tends to be all about the founding fathers, but this museum plans also to honor founding mothers and brave but lesser-known patriots.
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The Founding Fathers came together at Philadelphia to achieve union at nearly any cost, because they wanted to avoid the persistent warfare that plagued Europe.
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The Founding Fathers modeled the impeachment clause after a system in Britain which gives Parliament the authority to investigate royal advisers and other higher officials.
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As part of Operation Founding Fathers, American troops traveled around broadcasting a get-out-and-vote message at the same time they raided people's homes.
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But under the Obama administration, the judiciary usurped the role envisioned by the Founding Fathers by twisting the Constitution to advance its own policy agendas.
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His collection includes memoirs of those who served at the highest levels of government, including recent officials, and histories of some of America's founding fathers.
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Schiff ended the day's arguments by citing the Founding Fathers, telling senators that they put impeachment into the Constitution for exactly this kind of scenario.
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"I think presidents of both parties have been trying to usurp the authority, but our Founding Fathers wanted it to remain in Congress," Paul said.
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"The Founding Fathers gave the power to authorize military conflicts to Congress, the branch most accountable to the people," Sanders said in a floor speech.
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The Founding Fathers worried a lot about foreign influence on U.S. politics; sometimes it seems as if Trump took their concerns as an operating manual.
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The hypocrisy of our Constitution's wording, in which euphemisms must be found every time the institution of slavery is protected, reveals the founding fathers' chagrin.
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It's an atmosphere you'd expect to find created by murder mystery author Agatha Christie or Italian diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli more so than our Founding Fathers.
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Way back, in some cases, with references to numerous founding fathers, Sir Thomas More and John Mordaunt, a 17th-century English viscount who faced impeachment.
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The California Republican said something about the Democrats having always wanted to impeach Trump, mentioned the warnings of the Founding Fathers and then walked away.
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Slinging mud at porn stars likely wasn't what the Founding Fathers had in mind with the First Amendment, but nonetheless this is where we are.
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The right of media platforms to disseminate or not disseminate whatever they choose is exactly what the Founding Fathers meant by freedom of the press.
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Keep in mind that Congress's central function as devised by the founding fathers was the "power of the purse," exercising power over the federal budget.
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I'm certain the Founding Fathers would be surprised that two Irish-Catholics who would have been outcasts in the colonies – President Kennedy and his brother, Sen.
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When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans, or to nominate a presidential candidate.
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He's one of the founding fathers of tech-house, a loose genre that still holds its cold grip around much of the international dance music scene.
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"The founding fathers (of the EU) wanted to ensure closer economic cooperation because states that cooperate economically do not wage war against each other," he said.
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Congress, a body the Founding Fathers considered so dangerous that it needed splitting in two, is in its demoralised state especially susceptible to unthinking party allegiance.
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He then equated Confederate leaders like Lee and Stonewall Jackson to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, noting that the two presidents and Founding Fathers owned slaves.
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Xu Chenye, Zeng Liqing and Charles Chen Yidan, a student with a major in chemistry, made up the rest of the five founding fathers of Tencent.
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IN A COUNTRY of larger-than-life leaders—founding fathers, warriors and peacemakers—it is easy to forget how long Binyamin Netanyahu has been around for.
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I did not mean to imply, as Mr. Maitland suggests, that the founding fathers were in any way afraid of change or in need of defense.
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It's the kind of thing that frequently happens in our democracy, stretching back to the bitterly fought contests that involved the Founding Fathers and their successors.
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"The idea that there was ever intended to be a dominant culture or religion in this country is not what the founding fathers intended," he said.
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The article took no account of the fact that hip-hop was also chosen to tell the story of one of America's founding fathers in "Hamilton".
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Thomas Jefferson is a complicated historical figure as so many of our Founding Fathers were, but the Declaration of Independence was truly a work of genius.
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After this bill, a great fear of the Founding Fathers—a politics of warring factions and interests, scrapping over the public purse—looks closer than ever.
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The worst part is, getting an appointment with a good doctor often feels harder than getting tickets to a certain Broadway musical about our Founding Fathers.
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Broadway sensation Hamilton has become a major pop culture phenomenon, primarily through its use of diverse casting to retell the stories of America's Colonial Founding Fathers.
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The zoo revealed the name -- a nod to one of America's founding fathers Alexander Hamilton -- on International Ungulate Day, which celebrates the diversity among hoofed animals.
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Hamilton, the hit musical that tells the story of the Founding Fathers with a multicultural cast and a rap and pop soundtrack, has been wildly successful.
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He celebrated modern India's "founding fathers," specifically naming Mahatma Gandhi, whose vision of a diverse, pluralistic India has long been anathema to Hindu nationalists like Modi.
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But Hamilton achieves its success precisely by collapsing the space between past and present—by helping us see the founding fathers as fundamentally similar to ourselves.
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But on a night when Grammy watchers were expecting fireworks from that pair of big stars, they found competition from an unlikely source: the Founding Fathers.
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And in doing so, he would be honoring our Founding Fathers, who intentionally limited government power to guarantee life, liberty and the due process of law.
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And just as Newton was both a scientist and an alchemist, the founding fathers declared "we are all created equal" while many of them owned slaves.
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A growing acrimony and hostility among the three largest euro area members would hardly be conducive to an "ever closer union" dreamed by the founding fathers.
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Kaepernick, despite my personal feelings about his protest, is resolutely, well within the rights given to us by Founding Fathers to sit during the national anthem.
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The Times of Israel last week described Peres as the last surviving member of Israel's founding fathers and a veteran of the Knesset, its national legislature.
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The timing of the appointment and confirmation process is a strictly political decision left to the executive and legislative branches of government by the founding fathers.
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Echoing his comments on Tuesday, Trump tweeted Thursday that the removal of Confederate statues could lead to the removal of monuments to the US's founding fathers.
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" Kessler went further, saying, of Bellamy, "He and his ilk have targeted all the Founding Fathers, philosophers, artists, and other leaders of our glorious Western civilization.
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It is that immutable impulse, which ever leads men and nations toward ruin, that our Founding Fathers set out to harness and neutralize with the Constitution.
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Instead, the right has chosen to do to McCain what it has long done to our Founding Fathers: talk up his greatness while minimizing his missteps.
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He suggested that allowing the statue's removal could lead to the removal of other monuments to the country's Founding Fathers, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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His collection includes memoirs of those who served at the highest levels of government office, including recent officials, and histories of some of America's founding fathers.
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While the dissenting justices looked to the founding fathers and the American experience to articulate a resolution consistent with those traditions, the majority opinion does not.
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Just as our Founding Fathers worked night and day to draft the Constitution, so too a return to a work ethic in Congress would be helpful.
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Reprinted from WE THE PEOPLE: THE MODERN-DAY FIGURES WHO HAVE RESHAPED AND DEFINED THE FOUNDING FATHERS' VISION OF AMERICA Copyright © 2016 by Juan Williams.
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He was truly one of the founding fathers of Israel and sitting with him was the equivalent of breaking bread with John Adams or Thomas Jefferson.
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In fact, the Founding Fathers built a legal system specifically to avoid the tarring of citizens when there wasn't enough proof to meet a criminal charge.
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The Iowa Republican sparked controversy again last week by saying that treating all cultures as equal is a way of "devaluing" the U.S.'s Founding Fathers.
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Bork's commitment to the original intent of the Founding Fathers appeared rigid and was fair game for portrayal as beyond the mainstream of contemporary judicial philosophy.
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Adams and Jefferson, both Founding Fathers, argued for the right to a free press because they knew it was central to keeping an open society alive.
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This is an institutional problem, one in which the monarchy and unilateral control of the military that our Founding Fathers warned about is coming to fruition.
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In a statement to The Hill, Cruz — a onetime presidential rival of Trump — said Congress has broken from the "citizen legislators" envisioned by the founding fathers.
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It appears a fool's errand to attempt to apply context to the Founding Fathers motives and their comprehension of late-eighteenth century weaponry and emergent threats.
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In drafting our Constitution, the Founding Fathers designed the Judiciary to serve as a bulwark against the excessive accumulation of power by the President and Congress.
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Ma ended his statement on Twitter by quoting a slogan popularized by one of the US founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin: "United we stand, divided we fall."
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The founding fathers nervously waited their turn in a hallway at the Museum of the City of New York on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Although the Senate and the House have similar responsibilities to provide government oversight, the founding fathers gave them certain specialties, said Mr. Baker, the Rutgers professor.
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He used terms like "bananafest" and "bananapalooza" at a hearing, after wondering "whether the founding fathers had banana costumes in mind" when they drafted the Constitution.
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Deng is second only to Mao in the pantheon of Communist China's founding fathers, and his influence and popularity lingered long after his death in 1997.
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Eccentrics cosplaying as Founding Fathers or wearing pro-pot T-shirts had been replaced by a mass of earnest activists in button-downs and MAGA hats.
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Democrats worry about Mr. Trump's attempt to shift the debate to Confederate monuments and a slippery slope argument toward tearing down memorials to slaveholding founding fathers.
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Enlightenment philosophers in the 18th century and the founding fathers of republican France largely rejected the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes fiercely, she said.
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In talking and thinking about impeachment, observers and participants have gone on (and on) about the founding fathers: about Hamilton and Madison and the Federalist Papers.
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Schumer then took to the floor himself to challenge the GOP leader's commitment to a fair trial, quoting one of the nation's founding fathers for evidence.
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Over and over during the town hall, Pelosi cited the Founding Fathers, describing impeachment as a constitutional obligation forced upon members of Congress by Trump's actions.
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Mark Zuckerberg came to Washington, DC, on Thursday to claim the mantle of Martin Luther King and the Founding Fathers as a champion of free speech.
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"The Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold," he wrote as recently as 2016 in a National Review magazine article.
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This required much discussion of historical precedent, multiple clips of constitutional scholars testifying before the House and, of course, many, many quotations from the founding fathers.
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Broadway's sold-out musical "Hamilton" which mixes rap, jazz, ballads and casts black and Latino actors as the U.S. founding fathers, performed live from New York.
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Unfortunately, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, our lawmaking process has strayed away from the vision that was set by our founding fathers in the Constitution.
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Perhaps the traumatic effect of our current crisis will finally spark reconsideration and a grand coalition of new leadership to finish what our founding fathers started.
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That is an unacceptable resignation of faith in the future of America and faith in the three branches of government designed by our founding fathers. Mrs.
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Bottom line is we are all one family who will never agree on everything except preserving the incredible gift our founding fathers bestowed on us all.
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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Mugabe's passing "with the utmost sadness" on Twitter, calling the former president one of the founding fathers of modern-day Zimbabwe.
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The Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution and organized our government didn't bother to ask the citizenship question for the first 30 years of our existence.
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But the most clarifying element wasn't one of the many quotes from the Founding Fathers, but a simple analogy offered by Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan.
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The new setting at last gives writer/director James DeMonaco a chance the explore the architects of his dystopian nightmare: the New Founding Fathers of America.
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The Founding Fathers recognized the important contributions made by tribal nations to a fledgling national economy and ultimately memorialized that economic relationship in the U.S. Constitution.
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The Founding Fathers stitched together an exquisite fabric to connect a land of different people into one community through balance of power and respect for diversity.
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Among those forming partnerships with cannabis companies: film director and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola and the heirs of Robert Mondavi, one of Napa wine's founding fathers.
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Go: Daniel Glenn's play "King Philip's Head," an astutely goofy portrait of legislative gridlock in the Plymouth Colony, casts women as some seriously conflicted founding fathers.
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The wider American public yearns for such storytelling, which is why the road to the Pulitzer Prize is littered with books about great white Founding Fathers.
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If we were to follow his philosophy, where would women and blacks be today: still treated as the second-class citizens and slaves of our founding fathers?
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But, overall, the American technology industry is a shining example of the wisdom of the founding fathers, and the example of Samuel Slater over 200 years ago.
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The White Horse Tavern predates the United States of America by over 100 years and was once a favorite watering hole for founding fathers and Brits alike.
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Here we find the digital world's founding fathers — and rest assured, it's a list that comes complete with entitled attitude and problematic relationships with minorities and all.
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Just as our founding fathers were doing some 238 years ago, we'll all surely be stuffing ourselves with Frito Lay products during this year's 4th of July.
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Hamilton, by race-bending the Founding Fathers and having them speak in an idiom associated with the streets, is the kind of cultural remix they don't appreciate.
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The only difference was the Founding Fathers were lily-white men—a lot of them rich, slave owners—and their actions were considered appropriate for the time.
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" She ended the post with a larger criticism of the New York Times as a whole, calling the publication "one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy.
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" He blames the American education system, which has failed to convey "the founding fathers' achievement in establishing a system of government based on the guarantee of rights.
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"It really did set the foundation that our Founding Fathers used to develop documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights," he said.
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This past Saturday, in cities across our nation, Americans rose up around the issue that brought our founding fathers to their feet and began a revolution: taxes.
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"The founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances," Clapper said.
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Independence Day celebrates the day America's founding fathers put pen to paper and outlined the rights and beliefs that would form our values as a new nation.
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His latest book, "We The People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America" published by Crown, is out now.
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And it's a law that affects hundreds of thousands of potential presidential candidates, a number our Founding Fathers could not have predicted when they wrote the Constitution.
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"I think your pants look hot, Laurens" I assume the film will be a hit, as American audiences really do love speculating about the Founding Fathers' sexuality.
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Our Founding Fathers gave us the option to call this Convention of States in Article V of the Constitution, and eight states have already passed the application.
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According to the Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming, parents started giving babies like Franklin, Washington, and Madison after the revolutionary war to honor the founding fathers.
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The U.S. government inquired about individual's citizenship status for 130 years--the first being in the year 85033--during the lifetime of many of our founding fathers.
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His latest book, "We The People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America," published by Crown, is out now.
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It is decidedly not one of a benevolent, far-reaching American exceptionalism as envisioned by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration that we celebrate this July 4.
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When the Founding Fathers created the Post Office in the Constitution, it was always determined that its core service would most appropriately be the delivery of letters.
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Although the Founding Fathers viewed impeachment as a critical check on the abuse of presidential power, they fully understood its ability to inflame and divide the citizenry.
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Fried and Mullenweg are the founding fathers of a movement that has inspired at least a dozen other companies to follow suit, including Zapier, Github, and Buffer.
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The records of the Federal Convention of 1787 hardly mention discussions related to the state-initiated Article V process, nor do the writings of the Founding Fathers.
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But overall, the American technology industry is a shining example of the wisdom of the founding fathers, and the example of Samuel Slater over 200 years ago.
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It is the idea that these people can live together, and help one another, and realize the dreams sketched out very long ago by the Founding Fathers.
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In the time of the Puritans, America's deeply religious founding fathers, abortion was allowed until the fetus was "quick" — when the woman could feel the fetus move.
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Many leaders in the coalition, such as Ms. Merkel, are considered torchbearers of European democracy, and its founding fathers also were the founders of the European project.
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And because of that, I say that we are — as much as the white founders whom we recognize — that we are the founding fathers of this country.
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For Children Independence Day tends to be all about the founding fathers, but this museum plans also to honor founding mothers and brave but lesser-known patriots.
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It is indisputable that the federal courts, up to and including the Supreme Court, are being inundated with cases, in numbers that the Founding Fathers never imagined.
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Balanchine (1904-1983) and Lincoln Kirstein (21994-22010), City Ballet's founding fathers, committed it to novelty and to a repertory composed almost entirely of its own commissions.
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"The time is clearly now to put this House on record for the fullest expression of that equality of opportunity which our Founding Fathers professed," said Chisholm.
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Indeed, that is exactly the role our Founding Fathers envisioned for the judiciary—a check and balance against any political efforts to dilute human and civil rights.
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Like Justice Scalia, Judge Gorsuch regards himself as an originalist, meaning he tries to interpret the Constitution based on the text as written by the founding fathers.
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The Founding Fathers were not sturdy believers in the democratic ethos but élites adrift without a clear-cut hierarchy, who propped themselves up by disparaging the poor.
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In high school, we learned that the founding fathers designed a system of checks and balances to keep a future erratic president from ever abusing their power.
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Native American Heritage Month almost inevitably comes with fumbles that undercut the purpose, even without a president trying to squeeze "Founding Fathers" into the month as well.
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If Congress doesn't assert its authority, the executive branch will be empowered to engage in unending war — clearly not what our Founding Fathers intended in the Constitution.
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The Founding Fathers would be shaking their heads at the idea that corporations could block consumers, workers, and other ordinary people harmed from meaningful access to courts.
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Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) strongly criticized panel Democrats and witnesses for bringing up the Founding Fathers in debating whether Trump had committed impeachable offenses.
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That year David Ben Gurion, one of Israel's founding fathers, gave the ultra-orthodox chief rabbinate control over what's called "personal status" issues (marriage, birth, and death).
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To McManamon, the precedent the Founding Fathers used wasn't British law as of 1787, but the English common law tradition (law made by courts rather than legislation).
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Gorsuch, like Scalia, is described as an originalist, judges who give weight to the text of the Constitution as they believe it was intended by the Founding Fathers.
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Though these Founding Fathers signed the document in the 1700s, Independence Day didn't officially become a holiday until 133, and it became a federal paid one in 1941.
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" Bush told participants in the ceremonies that "with a single oath, all at once, you became as fully American as the most direct descendants of the Founding Fathers.
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The United States was born in the Age of Enlightenment; its founding fathers were determined not to follow the European model of "might makes right" and transactional morality.
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In the city where the Founding Fathers declared independence from King George III, the Democrats crowned Hillary Clinton as the first woman presidential nominee of a major party.
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On an all new episode of Action Bronson & Friends Watch Ancient Aliens, Action, Eric Andre, and Earl Sweatshirt learn that American founding fathers may have known about aliens.
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A majority of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, but the system the Founding Fathers established to keep a strongman out of office has instead given him that office.
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Montesquieu's idea that government can be divided into three branches—the executive, legislative and judicial—had proved so influential that the Founding Fathers built it into America's constitution.
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The Founding Fathers committed violence against Britain to bring about the change that they felt they were due and today we have a nation called the United States.
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The New Founding Fathers of America, the political party that's seized control of the government, claims the Purge lets society evacuate its violent impulses in one frenzied night.
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With the US Supreme Court, the founding fathers created an über-powerful judicial body to enforce a constitution that now governs 325 million residents of the United States.
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But like just about everyone else in America, all four have expressed their admiration for "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel's breathlessly feel-good play about one of America's founding fathers.
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The Purge is set in a fictional near-future America in which a government group known as the New Founding Fathers established a yearly event called Purge Night.
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At the outset, the founding fathers decided to grant the president extremely broad pardon powers — drawn, in many ways, from British history and the king's authority to pardon.
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Speaking in the Oval Office Wednesday, Obama said none of the country's founding fathers believed a president should stop doing his job in his final year in office.
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Will's conservatism is rooted in a deep mistrust of majority rule and an almost religious veneration of the Founding Fathers, or at least a certain understanding of them.
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On the other hand, having just experienced the unfettered discretion of a king, our Founding Fathers must have been sensitive to the potential abuse of the pardon power.
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James Madison, one of America's Founding Fathers, and Edmund Burke, his philosophising contemporary, argued for a "trustee" model, whereby voters elect politicians to make difficult decisions for them.
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The three founding fathers of Pakistan cricket were a Christian, a Parsi and a Muslim, in keeping with Muhammad Ali Jinnah's vision of Pakistan as a secular state.
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Two, reminded of how wise our founding fathers were to break with mad George III, how soon before we're smart enough to break with mad Donald the First?
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Despite popular conceptions that the Constitutional Convention lacked conflict, the founding fathers often debated the balance of power between the national and state governments, among many other issues.
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We all know how good Jefferson was on freedom of speech, but he was possibly the worst sexist in the very competitive group known as the Founding Fathers.
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The history surrounding the Constitution and Bill of Rights shows America's Founding Fathers were concerned about abuses by the British crown that led up to the Revolutionary War.
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"E pluribus unum" has been invoked by many, including Obama, as evidence that our Founding Fathers intended our nation to be welcoming to immigrants of all different backgrounds.
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With the Founding Fathers' version of a government checked and balanced by equal branches apparently in decline, the fruit of present-day division is a mire of paralysis.
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In Bush, he found a highly qualified, Harvard-educated lawyer dedicated to the US Constitution and the nation's founding principles (he even named his dogs after Founding Fathers).
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Save for a few inclusive exceptions — the Broadway musical Hamilton, which features Black and Latino actors as America's white founding fathers, comes to mind — the answer is no.
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The Founding Fathers realized that the people who controlled the gold, so to speak, ran a huge risk, ran a huge temptation, of just badly abusing the borrowers.
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"More than 230 years ago, the Founding Fathers of our country penned the Constitution that has since laid the framework for centuries of policies," the Republican governor said.
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" Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Mr. Biden's campaign, accused Mr. Johnson of "abusing congressional authority in a manner that would make the founding fathers spin in their graves.
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He introduces his most recent book, "On Tyranny," this way: The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy.
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"Jim Holland is one of the founding fathers of cancer chemotherapy," said Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr., a Yale professor and former director of the Yale Cancer Center.
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Pakistan defined itself as an Islamic country, but India's founding fathers laid the groundwork for a pluralistic country where practitioners of all religions would be treated as equals.
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"Democrats have let 'Trump derangement syndrome' develop into the kind of dangerous partisan fever that our founding fathers were afraid of," he said Friday on the Senate floor.
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The democratic system our founding fathers gave us is one that values everyone, not just those in the political majority or those that subscribe to a preferred ideology.
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But when it comes America's Founding Fathers, we have all the data that we need – in their writings, speeches and legislative records – to "resurrect" them through machine learning.
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And taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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The Second Amendment to the Constitution grants to people the right to bear arms, but there is no way the Founding Fathers could have possibly anticipated automatic weapons.
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Schiff in the report also invoked the Founding Fathers, repeating warnings of those who blindly seek to grab power, hurting the will of the people in the process.
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That's appropriate behavior in an orderly republic, as opposed to this political and policy vigilantism that runs contrary to the remedies created for us by the founding fathers.
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The senator addressed the power of the seemingly endless roster or federal agencies in Washington, and how this power has expanded far beyond the Founding Fathers' wildest dreams.
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Since the time of the Founding Fathers and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.
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The juggernaut that is "Hamilton," the hip-hop-flavored musical about the founding fathers, shows no signs of slowing down, once again winning the weekly Broadway box-office derby.
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Eater reports that there's a brand-new way for musical die-hards to get even closer to their favorite rapping founding fathers: a historical cookbook inspired by Alexander Hamilton.
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He's eyeing his place in this history books just as he faces the Constitutional penalty of impeachment, the remedy the Founding Fathers offered to rebuke and remove a President.
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Forrest McDonald, a presidential and constitutional scholar who challenged liberal shibboleths about early American history and lionized the founding fathers as uniquely intellectual, died on Tuesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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What the Founding Fathers Had to Say About the Crypto WarsThe All Writs Act was passed during the First Congress, which included many of the drafters of the Constitution.
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The unclear language of the constitution, the paucity of cases and the role played by partisan politics (unanticipated by the Founding Fathers) make Ford's remark both plausible and unsatisfactory.
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Steven Waldman, the author of a fine history of the religious views of the Founding Fathers, has now written a powerful account of American religion since the colonial period.
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The new Constitution was going to give Congress the power to raise an army, but some Founding Fathers were scared it would give the federal government too much power.
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Instead, the work of the men and women of the FBI should be governed by steadfast professionalism and respect for the procedures and safeguards established by our Founding Fathers.
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Last March, Obama delivered a moving speech honoring the 50th anniversary of the March on Selma, in which he asked us to consider the words of our founding fathers.
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Even Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were known to anonymously insult one another in the newspapers and pamphlets of the day at the founding of the Republic.
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"Nerds", the "musical dot comedy" about tech's founding fathers has had its Spring Broadway run postponed, following the news that a key investor had dropped out, producers have revealed.
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IN THE West, regard for the founding fathers of independent India is usually confined to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the pacifist in a dhoti and the suave Cantabrigian.
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The costs for the three paintings -- one by William Louis Sonntag Sr., the others being portraits of founding fathers John Marshall and James Monroe -- were for labor and delivery.
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The bill has prompted fierce opposition from Republican lawmakers in the state who claim the legislation is unconstitutional and would subvert the Founding Fathers' idea of an Electoral College.
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When the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment, militias were composed of individuals who owned their own weapons and were expected to bring those weapons with them to battle.
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The Founding Fathers, played by the black actors Marcia Berry, Langston Darby, Tabatha Gayle, Landon Woodson, and Tori Ann DeNoble, appear as foils — representatives of white supremacy in America.
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Because of course that's what Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers had in mind when they set in motion more than 200 years of peaceful transfer of power.
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He also argued that taking down such statues would lead to a slippery slope, in which monuments to Founding Fathers, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, would be desecrated.
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For someone with those interests, "Hamilton" — a hip-hop-driven musical that told the story of America's founding fathers using an almost wholly nonwhite cast — was a natural home.
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Misleading or inaccurate information is not new, dating back to some of the more spurious revolutionary pamphlets distributed by our own founding fathers — an eighteenth century version of Reddit.
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When the American Revolution gave birth to a new country vulnerable to foreign powers, the founding fathers empowered Congress with authority over immigration in Article 1 of the Constitution.
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For much of their history, the former plantations and estates owned by America's Founding Fathers have tiptoed around the history critical to the building of these massive sprawling mansions.
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When the Founding Fathers set out to design the institutions that still structure our national life, they had every reason to fear that their enterprise would end in failure.
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Unsurprisingly, though, the Founding Fathers were agnostic about colleges that might want to admit students on the basis of their throwing arm, sense of humor, or challenging life experiences.
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One of Jamaica's founding fathers, N. W. Manley, was the greatest student athlete of his generation; later, as the revered head of state, he tirelessly promoted track and field.
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This is significant; one could describe the founding fathers of the modern Swedish society as Social Democrats, and Sweden stands as the model case of the Nordic welfare state.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recognized a milestone of human ingenuity this week that perhaps even the Founding Fathers' never anticipated: granting the 28500 millionth patent.
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"Our Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew the President could launch a massive, potentially civilization-ending military strike without authorization from Congress," Rep.
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It does not meaning casting back to some 1950s ideal, or deifying those Founding Fathers, who owned slaves and restricted the right to vote to wealthy white landowning men.
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So the Founding Fathers felt so strongly that they put it ahead of the power to declare war, the power to raise an army, and all those other things.
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As an example, he has argued that the Federalist Papers helped drive support to ratify the Constitution because the Founding Fathers who wrote them did so using a pseudonym.
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Dr. Cacioppo (pronounced kass-ee-OH-po) and his Ohio State University colleague Gary Berntson were, in the early 1990s, the founding fathers of what they called social neuroscience.
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I've read every word of Farrand's debates on the adoption of the Constitution, all four volumes, and so I know that the Founding Fathers did not want a king.
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And one of its founding fathers, without a doubt, is Woody Allen, the neurotic Narcissus of the Me Generation, the bridge between midcentury psychoanalysis and digital-era selfie culture.
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Mixed in with pro-press quotes from founding fathers were reminders of journalists' role in provinces small and large: tying communities together, keeping citizens informed, holding governments to account.
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Back in 2009, many Americans among the hoi polloi were willing to be drafted into Santelli's aristocratic revolution, dressing up in Founding Fathers drag for their contemporary Tea Party.
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Well before the New York Public Library was established in 1895, the New York Society Library was opened in downtown Manhattan and used by some of the founding fathers.
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When the Founding Fathers created the three branches of our constitutional republic, they recognized it was essential for the judiciary to refrain from exercising its will instead of judgement.
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There is a familiar theme in Israel's history — most eloquently evoked by the late Israeli writer Amos Elon — that the state's founding fathers and their sons behaved very differently.
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Instead, it was about something the Founding Fathers feared: foreign interference in our elections -- and none of his defenses hold up to scrutiny when the founders' intent is examined.
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He said that the nation's Founding Fathers gave Congress the authority to declare war to force the commander in chief to consult with lawmakers before making hasty military decisions.
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Indeed, this push to the West Coast is Jeffersonian in nature, as the founding fathers themselves contemplated the notion that their experiment would one day stretch across the continent.
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It may not be exactly what the founding fathers had in mind, or what progressives and liberals today have in mind, or what the Trump people have in mind.
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"Our country's Founding Fathers envisioned a government where citizens leave private life, serve for a brief time, and then return home to their communities," Trott said in a statement.
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Other Founding Fathers, notably Thomas Jefferson, aspired to maintain a predominately agricultural economy as the only basis for promoting the twin republican virtues of self-sufficiency and community-mindedness.
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But, at the end of the day, this is a decision about whether the founding fathers had in mind this kind of misconduct when they gave Congress this remedy.
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Mr. Trump's blatant discrimination against those who wish to serve runs counter to the ideals and principals espoused by our founding fathers and articulated in the United States Constitution.
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There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong and independent press to our continued success in what the founding fathers called our 'noble experiment' in self-government.
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By the time he strode to a lectern in the governor's mansion on Saturday afternoon, with portraits of Virginia's founding fathers behind each shoulder, Mr. Northam was increasingly isolated.
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And there is a view that — this book is not about that — but there is a view that the Founding Fathers were more than aware of that, so they built in a lot of checks and balances, which has made the government agonizingly frustrating and slow-moving, but it is by design based on the Founding Fathers' observations of history and the dangers of unfettered power in any one hand or institution.
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The modern gun rights movement cites English philosopher John Locke as an intellectual inspiration—a fortuitous link, since our Founding Fathers also drew on Locke in composing our founding documents.
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" (Portman statement) Pat Roberts Clinton: "Do these actions rise to the level envisioned by our founding fathers in the Constitution as 'high crimes and misdemeanors' so warranting removal from office?
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"Our Founding Fathers gave us a great start, but it was the Founding Mothers who said, 'Do not forget the ladies, for we will foment our own revolution,'" Mikulski said.
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" Continuing, they added: "Multiculturalism is the antithesis of what the United States stands for and the foundational thinking of our founding fathers that sustains America as its own unique society.
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The "Founding Fathers dining room," for example showcases framed copies of letters from George Washington, James Madison and others, along with an antique wooden refrigerator and 19th-century ballot box.
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In the very beginning of the European community, our founding fathers found that no specific company should be able to out-compete other companies with taxpayers' money in their back.
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GANs were introduced in 2014 by Ian Goodfellow, then a student at MILA under Yoshua Bengio, one of the founding fathers of the machine-learning technique known as deep learning.
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What the Founding Fathers Had to Say About the Crypto Wars The All Writs Act was passed during the First Congress, which included many of the drafters of the Constitution.
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Hamilton is an unconventional take on the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States, blending, hip-hop and rap, rhythm and blues and ballads.
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The president did not spare on the oratorical flourishes in his speech, either, casting himself as a historic figure who is successfully building on the legacy of the Founding Fathers.
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" The authors continue: "Multiculturalism is the antithesis of what the United States stands for and the foundational thinking of our founding fathers that sustains America as its own unique society.
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Pete Davidson has come to this assembly of Founding Fathers in 1775, to bring us tidings of a momentous win at Bunker Hill by the American colonies against the British.
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To voice what is an unsettling truth -- today's terrorism in the US is most often perpetrated by white Americans who look more like the Founding Fathers than foreign-born jihadis.
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The U.S. Constitution created a system of checks and balances because our founding fathers understood that too much power concentrated in too few individuals has too much potential for abuse.
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One of the reasons the founding fathers created a federalist government is because the independent sovereign states would never have agreed to form a national government under any other circumstances.
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He allowed the principles to which the Founding Fathers subscribed our nation of a limited federal government with little power to be trumped by his interest in advancing corporate cronyism.
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Airing on ABC in January 1977, this generational saga of slavery was a kind of answer song to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration of the (white, often slave-owning) founding fathers.
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The racially and ethnically diverse fans in line for tickets in Chicago said the show's diverse cast - with non-whites playing the white founding fathers - drew them to the show.
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In the late eighteenth century, the Founding Fathers feared the possibility that corrupt foreign influence would subvert American institutions more than almost any other potential threat to the early republic.
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The New Founding Fathers, the white-guy junta who initiated the purge 25 years before this film occurs, have for some unstated reason moved Election Day from November to May.
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"The point is, the founding fathers are very concerned that in the majority, we get too passionate about their controls and too passionate about their interests, " Goeas said on Hill.
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"There is definitely a heavy tie to wanting to mimic the founding fathers, and they seem to have latched on to capitalization as the way to do it," she said.
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But even then, they reflect a profound misunderstanding of the nature of the Confederacy as a project — and of the difference between commemorating its leaders compared to America's Founding Fathers.
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Historiographical arguments about the relative merits of the different Founding Fathers are a staple of American intellectual life, playing out in scholarly works and popular histories and even Broadway musicals.
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Responding to a barrage of derision for linking the likes of Thucydides and the founding fathers with Justin Bieber, Mr. Billington said the tweets would be valuable to historians someday.
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" Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone, said in a telephone interview: "Jerry was part of the founding generation, he's one of the founding fathers, and he loved that.
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Jefferson, one of the nation's Founding Fathers and author of the Declaration of Independence, has long been a prominent figure in the area, having also founded the University of Virginia.
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Unlike Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump's fate will be determined by the institutions of our democracy, which have proved more resilient than perhaps all but our 18th-century founding fathers anticipated.
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A top state banking official, a son of one of China's founding fathers, accepted a $4,254 bottle of French wine — Château Lafite Rothschild, vintage 1945, the year he was born.
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The founding fathers established the world's oldest, still-active Constitution, and they made equality the guiding vision of our country, however tragically limited it was when the Constitution was written.
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For much of our modern history Republicans have tended to be the ones continually quoting the founding fathers, usually in regard to the dangers of an over-powerful federal government.
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The timeless greatness of our Founding Fathers should echo across the chambers of the House and Senate before, during and after the historic votes surrounding the impeachment of President Trump.
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Our Founding Fathers knew that our rights would only be safeguarded if they were protected by the American people themselves, who are the last bulwark against tyranny here at home.
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Lawmakers on both sides referenced back to the Founding Fathers, to the history being made with Wednesday's votes and to the ramifications they were leaving for their children and grandchildren.
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At no time in American history have we drifted further from the Founding Fathers' efforts to make our nation less about monarchistic cults of personality and more about constitutional rights.
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I needed crosses galore to get PRAETORIAN GUARD at 25A, and not so much help to get FOUNDING FATHERS (I don't know, been thinking about them a little bit, lately).
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By tracing the core tenets of the country back to the Founding Fathers, Grandin demonstrates how conquest, both domestically and abroad, has always been used to rally the country together.
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The Founding Fathers initially feared that the popular will of the people might lead to a demagogue becoming president, so they enacted this barrier — an antidemocratic measure, to be sure.
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The Founding Fathers lived in an era when all the news media was sharply partisan (the notion of an impartial, nonpartisan news media originated only in the early 2628th century).
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It will also force a judge to decide whether unleashing a "troll army" is protected by the First Amendment—a question that the founding fathers obviously could not have envisioned.
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The Founding Fathers enshrined a separation of powers in our Constitution so that there would be inherent checks and balances to avoid a situation where a president could become a king.
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How would he apply his doctrine of originalism -- the idea that he would apply the law as our Founding Fathers would -- to 21st century matters such as cyberhacking and digital privacy?
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We have a lot of founding fathers, including George Washington, who was exceedingly careful to ensure that references to God were as neutral as possible to as many religions as possible.
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Public skepticism over sinister political motives are as old as politics itself; even founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams weren't beneath smearing each other as toadies for evil interests.
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This often goes hand in hand with a particular interpretation of America's earliest years, which insists that the founding fathers planned to establish a Christian nation, not a religiously neutral one.
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As Mr Fea notes, those who insist that Mr Trump serves a divine purpose are usually the same as those who see the founding fathers of 1776 as instruments of God.
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While no candidate is perfect and while nothing is certain, I am convinced that Hillary Clinton has what it takes to make our government truly work as our Founding Fathers intended.
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Being honest about slavery, Ramsey said, forces us to grapple with the fact that our founding fathers who fought for freedom from Britain's tyranny hypocritically kept an entire population in bondage.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PHILADELPHIA — In the absence of robust modern American mythologies beyond The Avengers or the founding fathers, Trenton Doyle Hancock is devoted to creating his own.
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Such actions may quickly remind the occupant of the bully pulpit that neither the Founding Fathers nor the presiding Speaker intend for the legislative branch to be subservient to the executive.
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The founding fathers would be scandalized and appalled that anyone who serves as president could use the bully pulpit of the presidency to market his business and make money for himself.
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Like the US itself, the State of the Union speech (as it would become known after Washington's time) has sprawled and bloated beyond recognition since the era of the Founding Fathers.
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Part of the reason for the failure of authorizing committees is that the activities of the federal government far exceed those assigned to it by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.
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If her absence does not erase history, it will at least allow Israelis to bid farewell to one of their founding fathers without the intrusion of the current American election. video
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While his passing marks the end of an era — he was the last of the generation of founding fathers and their political leadership — it must not be the end of hope.
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As such, she has written an eloquent volume that is more discomforting and more necessary than a semitrailer filled with new biographies of the founding fathers and the most beloved presidents.
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MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday the ghosts of the nation's Founding Fathers must be wondering this Fourth of July how the U.S. got "a mad king" in the Oval Office.
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He called to protect the values of the founding fathers as the European Commission is stepping up infringement proceedings against Warsaw for new rules it alleges are incompatible with E.U. law.
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The fictional president stuck up for us and explained that the Supreme Court and the Founding Fathers knew that for the flag to be revered, it must stand for real freedom.
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They also contend that current rules treat journalists as a special class whose First Amendment rights are elevated above those of other Americans, something they don't believe the Founding Fathers intended.
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Hearing the British people on the ground talk about their excitement for a new princess got me excited (and also made me feel like a total traitor to America's founding fathers).
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The story: Fellow Founding Fathers of America and onetime bosom buddies Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were set at odds when Jefferson ran against Adams in the presidential election of 1800.
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Late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers returned to "Weekend Update" on Thursday dressed up as Founding Fathers to defend themselves after being compared to Confederate generals by President Trump.
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But perhaps more importantly, the Founding Fathers envisioned a political system without parties, where the salient political competitions would be between states and between branches rather than between Democrats and Republicans.
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Since the founding fathers explicitly modeled the United States on the Roman Republic, a study that investigates the circumstances of its demise promises to hold considerable relevance for our own times.
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" Lin gets this crazy idea that "I wanna make a hip hop retelling of the story of the American founder, Alexander Hamilton, he's not one of the A list founding fathers.
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Stephania Casimir, a first-generation Haitian-American, remembers her parents talking about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave who became one of Haiti's founding fathers, but not all of the details.
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Three founding fathers feature in two of our recommended titles: "Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson," by Gordon S. Wood, and "The Three Lives of James Madison," by Noah Feldman.
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Just as some historians have criticized "Hamilton" for playing down the founding fathers' position as slave-owning elites, musicologists might argue that the show similarly misrepresents Hamilton's cohort as musical populists.
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It was written in the day when the founding fathers worried about kings trying to buy the favor of officials, and about such employees trying to make money off their positions.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "He laid out a ton of evidence against the president, much of it sound bites of Trump himself, and he invoked the founding fathers and their words a lot.
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She told the crowd she was "glad" to see "so much enthusiasm for civic engagement" and said the town hall was an example of what the Founding Fathers intended for America.
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At a time when America finds itself dangerously divided, we must not hesitate to harness the Founding Fathers' collective legacy for the betterment of the nation that they cherished so dearly.
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In a heated press conference, Trump suggested that the removal of Confederate statues could eventually lead to the degradation of the country's Founding Fathers, specifically naming George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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" I also argued that despite the high-minded rhetoric about what the Founding Fathers would have wanted, it was also "essentially an attempt to steal an election that Trump fairly won.
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Yesterday, we marked the day that the country's founding fathers started off on a journey towards what is still a wholly imperfect independence and freedom for the original 13 American colonies.
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Through interviews with historians, reenactments, and even a trip to the Founding Fathers Pub, in Buffalo, New York, take an educational and entertaining journey to learn about one of America's greatest traditions.
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"You wouldn't find $29,000 for a presidential autograph except for when you're going back to the founding fathers or Abraham Lincoln," the auction house's founder, Nate Sanders, told the New York Times.
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He's also the founder of WallBuilders, a think tank devoted to promulgating the narrative that America was founded as a specifically Christian nation, and that the Founding Fathers were "orthodox, evangelical" Christians.
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Those founding fathers who composed and ratified it considered it the best they could produce to meet the needs of the time and of the future insofar as they could see it.
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This month the 255-year-old Mr Hamm, son of an Oklahoma cotton sharecropper who went on to become one of the founding fathers of the shale revolution, had a different message.
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Our Founding Fathers were able to come together from a broad range of backgrounds in Philadelphia in 1787, doing so with genuine respect for each other to create a union, however imperfect.
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As the world watched Shimon Peres, the last of Israel's founding fathers, laid to rest, any hope his passing might bring closer his unrequited vision for peace would quickly be pounced upon.
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"The worry that George III might come over and exert undue Germanic or British influence is no longer a threat," said Mr. Tribe, referring to a motivating fear of the founding fathers.
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Please think about the Founding Fathers, who demanded a uniform bankruptcy system ahead of the power to declare war, form a military, and even coin currency when they gave Congress its powers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thomas Perkins, one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, died on Tuesday at age 84 at his home in Belvedere, California, according to the Marin County coroner's office.
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In an interview in the online magazine Slate, the historian Lyra Monteiro argued that the musical blithely glosses over or ignores altogether the fact that America's founding fathers were involved in slavery.
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Imagine what the Founding Fathers, most of whom opposed anything that reeked of monopoly, would think if they could see how a few companies profit in the name of their nation's founding.
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" He went on to assert that the need for presidents to focus on overseeing the country is "why the founding fathers created immunity for a president, so the President can't be indicted.
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It's a slippery slope to tyranny, my friends, and the Founding Fathers knew that the best defense against despotism was for every home to have its own well-stockpiled nuclear-missile silo.
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As our Founding Fathers so clearly intended, a president should not have the arbitrary power to impose tens of billions of dollars in taxes on the American people without direct congressional approval.
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In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton tells us why the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College: to prevent an unqualified demagogue who is under foreign influence from taking over the nation's highest office.
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The Founding Fathers built the American system of government with someone like Trump in mind: a corrupt demagogue who shows no interest in protecting minority rights or upholding the rule of law.
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"Our founding fathers established the Constitution of the United States 'in order to form a more perfect union' through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government," Mr. Carson wrote.
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So how did its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda get inspired to take on the story of one of the U.S. Founding Fathers and the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton?
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Mugabe led Zimbabwe's liberation war and is hailed as one of post-colonial Africa's founding fathers and a staunch supporter of the drive to free neighboring South Africa from apartheid in 1994.
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The "constitutional conservatism" of Glenn Beck and Cleon Skousen (always more of a historical narrative than a legal philosophy) treated Christianity as an important part of the America of the Founding Fathers.
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The founding fathers thought so — and so they met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and drafted a new Constitution that would set up a new framework for a stronger government.
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A separate resolution was supposed to co-name Rogers Avenue between Farragut Road and Clarkson Avenue in honor of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave who was one of Haiti's founding fathers.
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Its population may be 80 percent Hindu, but the modern country's founding fathers, including Nehru and Mohandas K. Gandhi, resisted going down the path of establishing a religiously identified state like Iran.
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"Instead, it allows the principle of federalism to prevail as the founding fathers intended and leaves the marijuana question up to the states," Mr. Gardner said in a Twitter post on Thursday.
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Calhoun springs from a tradition that counts Tony Williams, Ginger Baker and Billy Cobham as founding fathers: powerhouse drummers whose roots in both rock and jazz laid the foundation for broader explorations.
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She described the reasons the Founding Fathers put the impeachment power into the Constitution but stayed purposefully vague on what the threshold would be for actually moving forward to remove a president.
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What could salve the bitterness over US President Donald Trump's impeachment battle better than a face-to-face explanation from the Founding Fathers about how they intended to hold presidents to account?
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"Our Founding Fathers were so deliberate in forming a nation of laws and not men, and if we go against that in the slightest form, we are playing with fire," Sanford added.
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He complained about the Founding Fathers and their strange prioritizing of the Bill of Rights: "I was in my apartment and the buzzer rang and it was the 101st Airborne," Mulaney said.
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Everybody thinks about hot dogs, hamburgers and going to the fireworks, but the founding fathers and all the people who served and risked their lives — they're the ones who should be celebrated.
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Further, although we are loathe in these times to acknowledge the positive sensibilities and talents of members of Congress, our Founding Fathers envisioned a specific role for the Senate in foreign relations.
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Our Founding Fathers cherished the belief "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" and enshrined this belief in the Declaration of Independence.
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"If you take a look at what the Founding Fathers were concerned about, it was the interference by foreign governments in our political system that was one of their gravest concerns," Rep.
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If the Supreme Court with its two new conservative justices should overturn Roe, it would be the equivalent of establishing a state religion, the very thing our founding fathers wanted to avoid.
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George Washington, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: Our lily-white founding fathers are all portrayed to perfection by a cast of some of the most talented non-white men in musical theater.
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But I think it&aposs interesting that someone who essentially wrote a musical that is a love letter to the founding fathers and to the Federalist Papers and to Alexander Hamilton is applauding.
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Addison's enlightenment era's vision of the moral sublimity of a man who willingly submits to the law in preference to the preservation of his own life inspired, among others, our own Founding Fathers.
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Letter argued the Founding Fathers would have applauded the House for stepping in to say that the president could not spend money that wasn't appropriated by Congress, a key tenet of the Constitution.
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" In an October interview with CNNE, show creator Miranda said the casting of blacks and Latinos as the founding fathers is meant "to eliminate any distance between the contemporary audience and the story.
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MARK LOGGINMaidenhead, Berkshire The United States has been lucky in many ways, and one of the most important is that our founding fathers had the wisdom to separate the church and state constitutionally.
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Washington (CNN)Former independent counsel Ken Starr called the prospect of firing Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller an "insult to the Founding Fathers" in a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday night.
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"The Secretary thanked Miranda for the ingenious way in which he has been able to tell Hamilton's story and ignite a renewed interest in one of our nation's founding fathers," the spokesperson said.
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The Founding Fathers, who might have been turning in their graves hearing Trump's multiple verbal assaults on the freedoms they espoused, would have been happy to see their design hold up under fire.
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But the idea that there needed to be a filter between the popular vote and political power survived into modern times; it can be clearly seen in the writings of the founding fathers.
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" Jim Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, told the Washington Post the equivalency Trump drew between founding fathers and Confederate generals is "unacceptable for the president of the United States.
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Last week, Rizieq was questioned by police over claims that he made defamatory comments in 2014 about one of Indonesia's founding fathers, Sukarno, and had questioned the legitimacy of the state ideology, Pancasila.
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