founding father

noun

1. often capitals a person who founds or establishes an important institution, esp a member of the US Constitutional Convention (1787)

Example Sentences

“It is not our fault, it is the founding fathers. They decided on this thing called the Electoral College. Which interestingly, no other country in the world decided to copy.”

From Salon

She looked back to our founding fathers to embrace the challenge.

From Salon

The personification of the state and its utilization as a means of selective punishment is precisely what America’s founding fathers fought against.

From Salon

Cal Dobbs, dressed for the part as a judge for the tournament, wears a white wig reminiscent of the founding fathers and a thong under his black robes.

From Los Angeles Times

America's founding fathers operated in a strictly white supremacist, patriarchal world and therefore would have opposed Harris' campaign simply because she is a Black woman of Indian descent.

From Salon