The Ghosts of the Founding Fathers When our Nation was known as, ?These United States Of America,? our ?Founding Fathers? had obstacles to overcome when making our Constitution. Alfred F. Young describes these obstacles as the haunting of ghost?s, ? Symbols of the broadly based movements elites had confronted in the making of the Revolution from 1765 to 1775...? (150). Young explains how these, ?ghosts?? made their presence at the, ?Philadelphia Convention even if they were not present.? (150). …showed first 75 words of 931 total…

…showed last 75 words of 931 total…known to the Founding Fathers who made the Constitution. The Founding Fathers overcame these obstacles by confronting these ?ghosts? and devising a plan so that the ?ghosts? would not come back to haunt them in the years to come. To get the ?genius? of the people to go along with their plan they made a few accommodations to make the people happy and accept what know today as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.