National founders of Libertas Omnium Maximus

The National Founders of Libertas Omnium Maximus, sometimes called the Founding Fathers, were a group of 19th century political, intellectual, military, and commercial leaders who overthrew the provisional Iustitian regime and established a second, constitutional state based on republican principles including universal male suffrage, abolition of the landed gentry class, freedom of the press, and religious liberty. The notion that a small cadre of enlightened men were overwhelmingly responsible for the formation and trajectory of the modern nation has existed in the public conscience since as early as the late 1860s, but the phrase, "founding fathers," did not become widespread until the turn of the 20th century. A few dozen figures have been identified as "founding fathers," but historians often focus on the six foremost of these individuals, recognizing the impressive scope and magnitude of their leadership as particularly formative for the nation: Michael Chaucer, Francis Green, Anthony Harris, James Duncan, Gerald Hart, and William Brand.

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  Green

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  Duncan

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  Chaucer