Founding Fathers

基本解释

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.
汉密尔顿虽然没当过总统，但是他是第一位美国财政部长，以及开国元勋之一。
But he makes it plain that the policies of the present administration have a pedigree that goes back even to the Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson himself hoped for “an empire for liberty”.
但是，钮金先生明确指出，本届政府的各项政策，若追本溯源，甚至可以上及那些开国元勋：托马斯杰佛逊自己就曾希望”建造一个自由的帝国。
This practice recalls a famous condemnation of village India by one of the country’s founding fathers, B.R.
这种做法让人回忆起开国元勋之一B.R.安贝德卡对印度乡村的著名谴责。

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.
Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.
但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。
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And that was how one of America's founding fathers,Benjamin Franklin, came into public life.

The Founding Fathers would be aghast at this flagrant assault on First Amendment religious liberties.
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