Myth of the Month 16: The Founding Fathers
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Constitutional Convention and the Constitution of the United States
The constitutional convention was a kind of runaway, renegade project taken up by a special, narrower group of politicians and statesmen. So 27 only signed the constitution. And if we look at those 27, it includes a number of very big names that you have heard of - but also obscure like jerrid ingersoll and gunning. But when historians use this sort of broader, more holistic definition of a founding father, it yields various different lists.
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