the group of men including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin who helped to start the US as a country and to establish its government. They wrote the US's most important political documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights
first people to establish something, originators (of a country, constitution, etc.)
The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. someone who begins something such as a new way of thinking, or a new organization founding father of