M: I would like you to go online and
build a list of the Founding Fathers. That part's easy, but I need you
to build and lock in a list of the Founding Fathers. And then once
you've done that, I'm going to ask you to go online and summarize,
through what's available online, their opinion on the results of the
Constitution. For the guys who remain constant, just a, you know, single
brief but comprehensive summary. And for the guys who are, who like
maybe developed a preference as they saw how things were turning out, or
developed an opinion, a more biographical version, but in the same way
of trying to be brief but comprehensive. Don't start with those, though,
first lock in a list of the signers of the Constitution, or members of
the Constitutional Congress, that you can use to reference as we move
along. Because I know that asking you for the entire thing at once will
end up causing some sort of strain, or drift, or something.
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Locked
list v1: Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia, 1787)
Scope: the 55 delegates who attended the
Constitutional Convention, with signers vs. non-signers
marked exactly as the National Archives does (* = attended but did
not sign). citeturn1view0
Connecticut
- Oliver Ellsworth citeturn1view0
- William Samuel Johnson citeturn1view0
- Roger Sherman citeturn1view0
Delaware
- Richard Bassett citeturn1view0
- Gunning Bedford, Jr. citeturn1view0
- Jacob Broom citeturn1view0
- John Dickinson citeturn1view0
- George Read citeturn1view0
Georgia
- Abraham Baldwin citeturn1view0
- William Few citeturn1view0
- William Houston citeturn1view0
- William L. Pierce citeturn1view0
Maryland
- Daniel Carroll citeturn1view0
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer citeturn1view0
- Luther Martin citeturn1view0
- James McHenry citeturn1view0
- John F. Mercer citeturn1view0
Massachusetts
- Elbridge Gerry citeturn1view0
- Nathaniel Gorham citeturn1view0
- Rufus King citeturn1view0
- Caleb Strong citeturn1view0
New Hampshire
- Nicholas Gilman citeturn1view0
- John Langdon citeturn1view0
New Jersey
- David Brearly (Brearley) citeturn1view0
- Jonathan Dayton citeturn1view0
- William C. Houston citeturn1view0
- William Livingston citeturn1view0
- William Paterson (Patterson) citeturn1view0
New York
- Alexander Hamilton citeturn1view0
- John Lansing, Jr. citeturn1view0
- Robert Yates citeturn1view0
North Carolina
- William Blount citeturn1view0
- William R. Davie citeturn1view0
- Alexander Martin citeturn1view0
- Richard Dobbs Spaight citeturn1view0
- Hugh Williamson citeturn1view0
Pennsylvania
- George Clymer citeturn1view0
- Thomas Fitzsimons citeturn1view0
- Benjamin Franklin citeturn1view0
- Jared Ingersoll citeturn1view0
- Thomas Mifflin citeturn1view0
- Gouverneur Morris citeturn1view0
- Robert Morris citeturn1view0
- James Wilson citeturn1view0
South Carolina
- Pierce Butler citeturn1view0
- Charles Pinckney citeturn1view0
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney citeturn1view0
- John Rutledge citeturn1view0
Virginia
- John Blair citeturn1view0
- James Madison Jr. citeturn1view0
- George Mason citeturn1view0
- James McClurg citeturn1view0
- Edmund J. Randolph citeturn1view0
- George Washington citeturn1view0
- George Wythe citeturn1view0
Counts (from this locked list): 55 attendees, 39
signers. citeturn1view0
Third
option: If you meant “Founding Fathers” more broadly
The phrase can mean a bigger set (e.g., Declaration signers, early
presidents, major pamphleteers, etc.). For your next step (“their
opinion on how the Constitution turned out”), this 1787 delegate
list is the cleanest starting boundary—but if you want, we can
later expand outward in controlled rings.