The Founders



The Founders are a major citizen faction and political party in the city of Columbia. Their name relates to the fact that they see themselves as the true founders of the city, and they attempt to model their ideals after the founding fathers of the United States. The party promotes ultra-nationalism, religious faith in the divinity of Father Comstock, jingoism, Militarism and extreme xenophobia, and is currently engaged at war with the anarcho-communist resistance group known as the Vox Populi. Only one member, its leader, Zachary Hale Comstock, appears in-game. Another member of the Founders, a politician named Saltonstall, was cut from the game but is mentioned. The Columbia Police and Military are both aligned with the Founders.

History
When Zachary Hale Comstock originally founded the city of Columbia, he shaped the city in an extreme American ideology, incorporation everything the founding fathers of the United States incorporated in the Constitution. This included racial segregation, their religious dominance over all other faiths, as well as fully justifying slavery and white supremacy. The backbone of his power was formed by the umbrella organization representing this jurisdiction, The Founders. Between Columbia's secession in 1901 and at least a decade after, the Founders secured full dominance ver the financial, economical and technological aspects of Columbia, much owed to Jeremiah Fink and Fink Manufacturing. This stranglehold of columbia went unchallenged until the rise of the Vox Populi. However, by the time of the events of BioShock Infinite, the Vox Populi entered a civil war with the Founders. Both the founders and the Vox Populi will stop at nothing for full dominance over the city.

 List of Founders : ''The scalps of all the founders, except for Comstock, can be found nailed to a board in the Port Prosperity Station's foyer. The bloodied board reads "Tell us Prophet. Do you see us coming?" Mr Flambeau's corpse can be found just underneath the board and in the middle of two other unidentified corpses. ''
 * Marlowe
 * Saltonstall
 * Vanderwald
 * H. Clark
 * Mr Flambeau
 * Jeremiah Fink
 * Zachary Hale Comstock