In American informal and political discourse, "the Founders" or "a Founder" refers to the Founding Fathers — the statesmen who established the United States through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention, and the early republic. The term is used both reverently and rhetorically, often invoked in debates about constitutional originalism, gun rights, or religious freedom. You'll hear it in political speech, podcasts, and Twitter arguments whenever someone wants to appeal to America's origins.
The senator kept asking what the Founders would have thought about the surveillance bill, as if Madison had a take on metadata.
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(US, often, in plural) A Founding Father.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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