be founded

The threats appear to be founded.

Voters were asked to remove a reference to marriage as the basis “on which the family is founded” and replace it with a clause that said families can be founded “on marriage or on other durable relationships.”

“But I don’t believe any state should be founded and centered upon an ethnic or religious identity.”

“Like the ordinary municipal laws, it may be founded upon our consent or that of our representatives; but it derives its ultimate obligatory force as a law, and not as a compact.”

Some may be founded on shamanic practices or wellness ideals rather than Westernized medicine.