Conditores Civitatum Foederatarum
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

 Gunning Bedford (Minor)
 Hugh Williamson
 Iacobus Broom
 Iacobus Madison
 Iacobus McHenry
 Iacobus Wilson
 Iared Ingersoll
 Ioannes Blair
 Ioannes Dickinson
 Ioannes Langdon
 Ioannes Rutledge
 Ionathan Dayton
 Nathaniel Gorham
 Nicolaus Gilman
 Pierce Butler
 Ricardus Bassett
 Ricardus Dobbs Spaight
 Robertus Morris
 Rogerius Sherman
 Rufus King
 Thomas Fitzsimons
 Thomas Mifflin
 Gulielmus Blount
 Gulielmus Cotter
 Gulielmus Few
 William Jackson, scriba
 Gulielmus Livingston
 William Paterson
 Gulielmus Samuel Johnson

Legati qui discedentes non signaverunt 
 Alexander Martin
 Caleb Strong
 Georgius Wythe
 Iacobus McClurg
 Ioannes Franciscus Mercer
 Ioannes Lansing
 Lutherus Martin
 Oliverius Ellsworth
 Robertus Yates
 Gulielmus Houston
 Gulielmus Houstoun
 Gulielmus Pierce 
 Gulielmus Richardson Davie

Legati qui signare recusaverunt 
 Edmundus Randolphius
 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.
 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.
 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?

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