Founding Fathers
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Founding Fathers are persons instrumental not only in the establishment (founding) of a political institution, but also in the origination of the idea of the institution.
Among others it is applied to those people involved with the creation and early development of the United States of America, such as the signers of its Declaration of Independence and the framers of its Constitution.
Along with the United States, several countries recognize a group of men as their historic national founders. Canada has its Fathers of Confederation (see Canadian Confederation).
The leaders of the Australian federalist movement in the 1890s might also be described as Founding Fathers.
Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi, Paul-Henri Spaak and Altiero Spinelli have been referred to as the founding fathers of the European Union.
See also
it:Padri fondatori