Who were the Founders, and what were they trying to build?
The Rulebook Argument
Who were the Founders, and what were they trying to build?
Picture a brand-new country with no rulebook. Thirteen colonies had just broken away from a king across the ocean, and now they were stuck with a thrilling, terrifying question: who's in charge here? The people who tried to answer that question are the ones we call the Founders.
The Founders weren't a club with matching jackets. They were lawyers, farmers, printers, soldiers, and merchants — people like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. They argued constantly. That arguing, it turns out, was the whole point.
