Hmm ... Schools Make Us Memorize 'the 50 States,' but Not 'the Seven (that's right, ONLY SEVEN) #FoundingFathers ' | @Wikipedia @STUDYdotcom

I discuss 'the list of America's #Instituters' in a paying forum you can access through 'the emboldened link(s)' below; you can join the forum and earn a share of their revenue, but first I want to teach you about those words. And I find you understand words better if you see 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum into their Foundation)

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The word “Instituters” (meaning in the foundation beneath "Founders") is built on ancient words that mean "to Establish- or Cause to Stand- (make or be Firm) In"

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Declaration of Independence, an 1819 painting by John Trumbull, depicts the Committee of Five (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston) presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress on June 28, 1776

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Bing implies there are Only 7 Founding Fathers (of the USA); How did 'The Seven' Get onto That List?

Oh, Study.com's site goes on to say that there were many other 'Founding Fathers' supporting The Seven; but it lists the same Seven as the "search-results page" that Microsoft Rewards sent me to. How did they get on 'the list'? I long thought it was basically 'all the guys who signed The Declaration of Independence (of the USA).' But no ... I mean, that's one trait that a lot of the Founders (both The Seven and the "Other Patriots"); but the title 'Founding Father' generally goes to ANYONE who played a key role in establishing the United States of America!

Portraits and autograph signatures of the framers and signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The seven main Founding Fathers:

• John Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Jay
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• George Washington

The #OtherPatriots (whom some include on the 'Founding Fathers'-list):

• Samuel Adams (whom--for his influence in planning the Boston Tea Party--Study.com includes as one of The FOUNDING Founding Fathers)
• James Monroe
• George Mason
• John Marshall
• Patrick Henry
• This is where I found out that Study.com only gave a preview---trying to find out more, I 'hit a pay-wall' ... I know it's worth the little bit they ask (with a free, 'cancel any time' trial, but they STILL wouldn't tell me more unless I gave them 'my credit-information.'
• ... So I went to 'everybody's favorite repository of probably-true history,' Wikipedia; and found (beneath the explanation that 'those seven were named in 1973's Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries (by Richard B. Morris)')
• The Signers of ... (and I know I'm going to repeat a lot of the names from above and a lot of the following names who signed more than one document)
• ... The Declaration of Independence (of the USA) - John Adams, Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark, George Clymer, William Ellery, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry (as in 'Gerrymandering'?), Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, John Hancock, Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lewis, Thomas Lynch Jr., Thomas McKean, Lewis Morris, Robert Morris, John Morton, Thomas Nelson Jr., William Paca, Robert Treat Paine, John Penn, George Read, Caesar Rodney, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, Edward Rutledge, Roger Sherman, James Smith, Richard Stockton, Thomas stone, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, George Walton, William Whipple, William Williams, James Wilson, John Witherspoon, Oliver Wolcott, George Wythe
• ... the Articles of Confederation - Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, William Ellery, Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, Thomas Heyward Jr., Samuel Huntington, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lewis, Thomas McKean, Robert Morris, John Penn, Roger Sherman, John Witherspoon, Oliver Wolcott, Thomas Adams, John Banister, Daniel Carroll, William Clingan, John Collins, Francis Dana, John Dickinson, William Henry Drayton, James Duane, William Duer, John Hanson, Cornelius Harnett, John Harvie, Samuel Holten, Titus Hosmer, Richard Hutson, Edward Langworthy, Henry Laurens, James Lovell, Henry Marchant, John Mathews, Gouverneur Morris, Joseph Reed, Daniel Roberdeau, Nathaniel Scudder, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Edward Telfair, Nicholas Van Dyke, John Walton, John Wentworth Jr., John Williams
• ... the Constitution (of the USA) - Abraham Baldwin, Richard Bassett, Gunning Bedford Jr. John Blair, William Blount, David Brearley, Jacob Broom, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, George Clymer, Jonathan Dayton, John Dickinson, William Few, Thomas Fitzsimons, Benjamin Franklin, Nicholas Gilman, Nathaniel Gorham, Alexander Hamilton, Jared Ingersoll, William Jackson, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, William Samuel Johnson, Rufus King, John Langdon, William Livingston, James Madison, James McHenry, Gouveneur Morris, Robert Morris (the only signer of ALL THREE of these documents), William Paterson, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, George Read, John Rutledge, Roger Sherman, Richard Dobbs Spaight, George Washington, Hugh Williamson, James Wilson
• Then there are 'Framers' who helped write The Constitution but could-not/did-not sign it: William Richardson Davie, Oliver Ellsworth, Elbridge Gerry, William Houston, William Houstoun, John Lansing Jr., Alexander Martin, Luther Martin, George Mason, James McClurg, John Francis Mercer, William Pierce, Edmund Randolph, Caleb Strong, George Wythe, Robert Yates
• and several additional Founders - Abigail Adams, Ethan Allen, George Clinton, Patrick Henry, Henry Knox, Robert R. Livingston, John Marshall, James Monroe, Thomas Paine, Peyton Randolph, Charles Thomson, Mercy Otis Warren, "Mad Anthony" Wayne

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