The phrase "founding fathers" always stuck in my craw and I am happy to get rid of it. Thank you for the relief. Founding alone invites memory a bit too automatically, so I'm going with framers.

Hmmm, framers, as in the meaning to frame someone is more accurate.

STICK IN ONE'S CRAW - "When you can't swallow something, when it won't go down, or you are loath to accept it, it sticks in your craw. The craw is the crop or preliminary stomach of a fowl, where food is predigested. Hunters centuries ago noticed that some birds swallowed bits of stone that were too large to pass through the craw and into the digestive tract. These stones, unlike the sand and pebbles needed by birds to help grind food in the pouch, literally stuck in the craw, couldn't go down any farther. This oddity became part of the language of hunters and the phrase was soon used figuratively."