Conditores Civitatum Foederatarum

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**Conditores Civitatum Foederatarum** fuerunt duces publici qui Declarationem Libertatis Civitatum Foederatarum signaverunt anno 1776, vel in Rebus Novis Americanis interfuerunt, vel Constitutionem Civitatum Foederatarum annis 1787–1788 composuerunt aut sanxerunt, vel administrationem Civitatum Foederatarum confecerunt.

Ricardus B. Morris, insignis rerum gestarum scriptor Americanus, in libro *Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries* (1973), septem homines appellavit gravissimos reipublicae conditores: Beniaminum Franklinium, Georgium Washingtonium, Ioannem Adams, Thomam Jeffersonium, Ioannem Jay, Iacobum Madison, et Alexandrum Hamiltonium. 

## Index Conditorum 
### Signatores Declarationis Libertatis 
* Abraham Clark
* Arthurus Middleton
* Beniaminus Franklinius
* Benjamin Harrison
* Beniaminus Rush
* Button Gwinnett
* Caesar Rodney
* Carter Braxton
* Carolus Carroll
* Carolus Thomson, Congressus Continentalis scriba
* Eduardus Rutledge
* Elbridge Gerry
* Franciscus Hopkinson
* Franciscus Lewis
* Franciscus Lightfoot Lee
* Georgius Clymer
* Georgius Read
* Georgius Ross
* Georgius Taylor
* Georgius Walton
* Georgius Wythe
* Iacobus Smith
* Iacobus Wilson
* Ioannes Adams
* Ioannes Hancockius
* Ioannes Hart
* Ioannes Morton
* Ioannes Penn
* Ioannes Witherspoon
* Iosephus Hewes
* Iosiah Bartlett
* Ludovicus Morris
* Lyman Hall
* Matthaeus Thornton
* Oliverius Wolcott
* Philippus Livingston
* Ricardus Henricus Lee
* Ricardus Stockton
* Robertus Morris
* Robertus Treat Paine
* Rogerius Sherman
* Samuel Adams
* Samuel Chase
* Samuel Huntington
* Stephanus Hopkins
* Thomas Heyward
* Thomas Jeffersonius
* Thomas Lynch
* Thomas McKean
* Thomas Nelson
* Thomas Stone
* Gulielmus Ellery
* Gulielmus Floyd
* Gulielmus Hooper
* Gulielmus Paca
* Gulielmus Whipple
* Gulielmus Williams 

### Legati Conventus Constitutionalis 
#### Legati qui signaverunt 
* Abraham Baldwin
* Alexander Hamiltonius
* Beniaminus Franklinius
* Carolus Cotesworth Pinckneyus

* Daniel Carroll
* Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
* David Brearly
* Georgius Clymer
* Georgius Read
* Georgius Washingtonius, praeses Conventus
* Gouverneur Morris
* Carolus Pinckneyus
* Elbridge Gerry
* Georgius Mason

### Alii Conditores 
* Egbert Benson
* Ethan Allen
* Fridericus Gulielmus von Steuben
* Georgius Clinton
* Gilbertus du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
* Henricus Knox
* Henricus Lee III
* Iacobus Monroe, legatus Congressus Continentalis, quintus Praeses Civitatum Foederatarum, ultimus "Saeculi Republicani"
* Iacobus Otis (Minor)
* Ioannes Jay, primus Summus Iudex Civitatum Foederatarum
* Ioannes Marshall, quartus Summus Iudex Civitatum Foederatarum
* Patricius Henry
* Michael Hillegas, primus Praefectus Aerarii Civitatum Foederatarum
* Peytonius Randolphius, Praeses Primi Congressus Continentalis
* Philipus Mazzei
* Ricardus Bland
* Robert R. Livingston
* Thomas Paine
* Thomas Sim Lee
* Gulielmus Rickman, medicus, primus Director Valetudinariorum Exercitus Continentalis
* Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga

* Historia Constitutionis Civitatum Foederataerum
* Index conditorum civitatum (totius mundi)
* Index legatorum Congressus Continentalis
* Iura Anglicorum

## Notae 
## Bibliographia 
* *American National Biography Online,* (2000).
* Richard B. Bernstein, *Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution* (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).
* R. B. Bernstein, *The Founding Fathers Reconsidered* (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
* Richard D. Brown. "The Founding Fathers of 1776 and 1787: A Collective View," *William and Mary Quarterly,* 3rd Ser., Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul., 1976), pp. 465-480 [online at JSTOR](http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597(197607)3%3A33%3A3%3C465%3ATFFO1A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G).
* Henry Steele Commager, "Leadership in Eighteenth-Century America and Today," *Daedalus* 90 (Fall 1961): 650-673, reprinted in Henry Steele Commager, *Freedom and Order* (New York: George Braziller, 1966).
* Joseph J. Ellis. *Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation* (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.
* Joanne B. Freeman, *Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic* (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
* Jack P. Greene. "The Social Origins of the American Revolution: An Evaluation and an Interpretation," *Political Science Quarterly,* Vol. 88, No. 1 (Mar., 1973), pp. 1-22 [online in JSTOR](http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3195(197303)88%3A1%3C1%3ATSOOTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U).
* P.M.G. Harris, "The Social Origins of American Leaders: The Demographic Foundations, " *Perspectives in American History* 3 (1969): 159-364.
* Mark E. Kann; *The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy* (New York: Frederick Praeger, 1999). 
* Adrienne Koch; *Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers: Essays in the Interpretation of the American Enlightenment* (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1961). 
* Frank Lambert. *The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America.* (Princeton, NJ> Princeton University Press, 2003).
* Martin, James Kirby. *Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the coming of the American Revolution,* (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1973; reprint, New York: Free Press, 1976).
* Morris, Richard B. *Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries* (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
* Robert Previdi; "Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America," *Presidential Studies Quarterly,* Vol. 29, 1999 
* Cokie Roberts. *Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation* (New York: William Morrow, 2005)
* Gordon S. Wood. *Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different* (New York: Penguin Press, 2006)

## Nexus externi 
* NARA Americae patres conditores
* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Patres conditores et servitus
* Quod accidit Libertatis Declarationis subscriptores? What Happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence?

Categoria:Res Novae Americanae