Foundations of American Government

  • John Trumbull Sr.

    John Trumball Sr. was a governer of the Connecticut colony in both pre-Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary era.
  • John Witherspoon

    John Witherspoon was one of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence and also a representative of New Jersey.
  • John Hancock

    John Hancock was a president of the Continental Congress and the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
  • Charles Carroll

    Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy man who later became a Senator of the United States
  • John Jay

    John Jay was a diplomat, one of the founding fathers of the United States, and the signer of the Treaty of Paris
  • Benjamin Rush

    Benjamin Rush is one the United States founding fathers. He was also a civic leader in Philidelphia, and also a US Mint treasurer.
  • John Peter Muhlenberg

    John Peter Muhlenberg was a was one of Americs clergymen, a soldier in the American Revolution, and a political figure when the United States got its independence.
  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain is the right of a government to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is when the founding fathers signed the paper that stated that we wanted to separated from England.
  • “E Pluribus Unum”

    “E Pluribus Unum” is the moto of the United States, meaning "Out Of Many, One".
  • U.S. Constitution

    The US Constitution is the document the has the basic human rights and the basic set of laws that the United States were going to use.
  • Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights is the documents that contains the first 10 Amendements.
  • Fifth Amendment

    The Fifth Amendement states that a person cannot be put on trial for a crime unless there is enough evidence that one did the crime. And also that if you are trialed once and proven innocent, then you cant be put on trial for the same crime again.
  • Alexis de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Alexis De Toqueville created five principles, or values, that he thought were crucial to America's success. Those five values being Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.
  • “In God We Trust”

    In god we trust is the official motto of the United States that was an alternate to "E Pluribus Unum"