why should people refer to the founding *fathers* of the Constitution as "framers"? can anyone justify this by giving me the name of one woman that directly contributed to the founding of the Constitution, and telling me what she did? give political correctness a rest people, if you have any backbone, this sort of thing wouldnt offend you. im sure the founding *fathers* were'nt transvestites.
2006-11-21 01:47:40 · 4 answers · asked by legal citizen 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
because some idiot told us too
2006-11-21 01:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Poptart20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People use the terms interchangably, not to include possible females within the concept of "framers." Framers has a bit of a different connotation than founding fathers because it had to deal with the construction and text of the constitution itself. Founding perhaps refers more to beggining the process to framing the constitution and beginning the revolution.
2006-11-21 13:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by Tara P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Framers? Maybe because they laid the "framework" for the Constitution...
Whats with the transvestite theory? I have never heard of anyone ever trying to claim that they were anything but upstanding citizens as being farmers and tradesmen...
And the "wigs" were just a left over from the English version is why they may have worn them, but transvestites is out of line...
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-11-21 09:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Betsy Ross helped win the Revolutionary war. I agree that it should be founding fathers but many husbands were swayed in their votes by how it effected their individual families, wife and daughters included. back to Betsy Ross had she or what is speculated to be her, convinced the Hessian reinforcements to delay their march by one night then Washington's Army would have been crushed at Trenton there by ending the revolution and ending your argument about founding anybodies. So try not to be so machismo about who you don't include for credit in the founding of our country. Also in the battle of Brooklyn heights a wife lay wounded next to a canon she had been firing next to her dead husband, the British were shocked to find that kind of tenacity in those fighting them.
2006-11-21 09:59:27 · answer #4 · answered by yellowkayak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋