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A statue of Benjamin Franklin sits amid the Founding Fathers in the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (KRT photo)
Scott Walker, the second-term Wisconsin governor expected to declare soon for president, often says the nation's founding fathers were just ordinary people.
PolitiFact Wisconsin checked into that.
Read on here--and have a great, safe Independence Day!
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Story, "Were the founding fathers 'ordinary people'?," PolitiFact Wisconsin, July 2, 2015
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