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John Trumbull Sr.
one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state and He was the only colonial governor at the start of the Revolution to take up the rebel cause -
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john witherspoon
John Witherspoon, was a Scots Presbyterian minister and the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, -
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john hancock
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and a governor of Massachusetts. -
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Charles Carroll
was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain -
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John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States. -
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Benjamin Rush
was a Founding Father of the United States Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia where he was a physician, politician, social reformer educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle Pennsylvania. -
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John Peter Muhlenberg
American clergyman and was a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War and political figure in the newly independent United States. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is ia document that is important because it shows that a government exists for the benefit of the people and that all men and woman are created equaly. -
E Pluribus Unum
E pluribus unum is the motto suggested by the committee Congress appointed on July 4, 1776 to design "a seal for the United States of America." The below sketch of their design accompanied a detailed description of their idea for the new nation's official emblem. -
us constitution
The usConstitution consists of seven articles and 27 amendments. The original seven articles took effect in 1789 the 27 amendments were added to the Constitution from 1791 to 1992 the first ten amendments were enacted in 1791; they are also called the bill of rights It is very likely that more amendments will be added -
Eminent Domain
The right of government or its agen to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. -
fifth amendment
The Fifth Amendment of United States Constitution is the section of the Bill of Rights that protects you from being held for committing a crime unless you have been indicted correctly by the police and is also where the guarantee of due process comes from this means that the state and the country have to respect your legal rights -
bill of rights
After the leaders of the new United States wrote the Constitution, they had to get the thirteen states to agree to it. Some of the states didn't want to agree unless they could add some specific rights for individual people. So in 1791 the United States added ten new rights to the Constitution. These are called the Bill of Rights. -
Alex De Tocqueville and his Five Principels
Alexis de Tocqueville ived at the time of two revolutions, the democratic and the industrial; their impact upon the traditional order furnished him with the major themes of his scholarly work. Tension between traditional and modern values dominated Tocqueville’s life and writings. Convinced of the irreversibility of democracy and contemptuous of reactionaries who thought they could block this historical movement -
"in god we trust"
The motto in god we trust was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War.
