who are our founding fathers, why do you think they are an important topic?

Answer 1

Obviously, you haven't completed your education through the sixth grade. Show some respect and capitalize their title.

Even your sentence structure proves the previous.

Get an education and then propose an intelligent question about the Founding Fathers.

Answer 2

Defining "founding fathers" as the authors and signers of the Constitution, it is first important to clearly understand just what that document does. It creates the federal government.

When examining the "who", it's important to not just get a list of names, and examine their professions and family status, but to consider exactly what role they were in as a "founding father". In other words, where did the authors and signers of the Constitution get the authority to to create this document?

They were selected by their individual states, which were independent and sovereign entities.

That's an important fact to understand. The states created the federal government, not the people, and not the other way around. It is important to bear this in mind, because this means that unless the Constitution says the federal government is supreme on a particular issue, it is not. Only by keeping the federal government in control could we maintain our society's freedom.

It was nice while it lasted.

Answer 3

Our Founding Fathers were the group of hypocrites who claimed that "All men are created equal, ..." while half of them owned slaves and the other half tolerated the existence of slavery.

The reason they are important is because they taught us how to be hypocrites: we continue their legacy of hypocrisy because to this day we still say things that we do not mean and we still do not practice what we preach. Sure, we've abolished slavery. But the men who abolished slavery and created a constitutional rule that no "person" shall be denied "the equal protection of the laws," would not even let women vote on what they created. We still have lots of leaders who say one thing and do another.

We owe our legacy of hypocrisy to our Founding Fathers.

Answer 4

You might say that the group of people who signed off on the Declaration of Independence, and / or debated and helped compose the Constitution are our founding fathers.

It is the goal of most (honest) leaders to follow their intent in governing this nation.