The Delegates of the Constitutional Convention, also known as the Founding Fathers, were a collective of fifty-five appointed individuals from the original thirteen colonies who attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, although only thirty-nine actually signed the Constitution. Some of its most notable member are George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin.
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be
maintained . . . for it is the only safeguard of our
liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to
all who love these great and true principles.”
–Abraham Lincoln
"Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor
Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of
which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few
members near him, that painters had found it difficult to
distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have,
said he, often and often, in the course of the Session, and the
vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that
behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was
rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know,
that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.”
–Benjamin Franklin (1787)
“The free system of government we have established is so congenial
with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that
it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues
may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.”
–James Madison (1826)
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification
of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be
corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution
designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though
this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the
customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
–George Washington (1796)
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be
maintained,., for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And
not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love
these great and true principles.”
–Abraham Lincoln
Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor
Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of
which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few
members near him, that painters had found it difficult to
distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have,
said he, often and often, in the course of the Session, and the
vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that
behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was
rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know,
that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.”
–Benjamin Franklin (1787)
“The free system of government we have established is so congenial
with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that
it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues
may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.”
–James Madison (1826)
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification
of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be
corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution
designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though
this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the
customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
–George Washington (1796)
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