"Founding Father" meaning in English

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          "name": "History of the United States",
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          "ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104",
          "text": "At the heart of it, I thought of the Great Society as an extension of the Bill of Rights. When our fundamental American rights were set forth by the Founding Fathers, they reflected the concerns of a people who sought freedom in their time. But in our time a broadened concept of freedom requires that every American have the right to a healthy body, a full education, a decent home, and the opportunity to develop to the best of his talents.",
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        "Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
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        "(chiefly US) Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
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          "sense": "man who founded something",
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          "word": "Gründervater der USA"
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