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He was the only colonial governor at the start of the Revolution to take up the rebel cause.[1]
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He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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ohn Knox Witherspoon[ was born at Gifford, a parish of Yester, at East Lothian, Scotland, as the eldest child of the Reverend James Alexander Witherspoon and Anne Walker,a descendant of John Welsh of Ayr and John Knox
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was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain
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He opposed slavery, advocated free public schools, and sought improved education for women and a more enlightened penal system. As a leading physician, Rush had a major impact on the emerging medical profession
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Josh Peter munlenberg bron in october 1 of 1746.
He was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1774, and was a delegate to the First Virginia Convention . Muhlenberg visited England in 1772 and was ordained into the priesthood of the Anglican Church although he served a Lutheran congregation. -
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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The motto was suggested in 1776 by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere to the committee responsible for developing the seal. At the time of the American Revolution, the exact phrase appeared prominently on the title page of every issue of a popular periodical, The Gentleman's Magazine, which collected articles from many sources into one "magazine"
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In God we trust" first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864[4] and has appeared on paper currency since 1957.
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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia
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is the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use
