| 1 | America's founders would have been profoundly annoyed by this kind of unreflective ancestor worship. | |
| 2 | America' s, said one of its founders, should be "a government of laws and not of men". | |
| 3 | The first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, after all, was a massive failure, and the founders learned from that failure. | |
| 4 | America's founders were modern men who wanted a modern country that broke with its past to create a more perfect union. | |
| 5 | Although the phrase was used by this country's founders to denote equality before the law, it has also been interpreted to mean equality of opportunity. |