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Financed American Revolution with his own money; Catholic
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Helped write the Declaration of Independence.
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1st president of Princeton; served in 1st Continental Congress
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A document that explained the reason why colonist wanted indolence and explained that the gov should protect the unalienable rights of citizens
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King of the Smugglers; Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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Minister became member of the “Black Regiment” which were ministers who recruited volunteers for the Revolutionary War
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Unofficial motto of the United States. Which was adopted when the Great Seal of the United States was created and adopted
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Negotiated the a preliminary treaty with Great Britain on behalf of America alongside Ben Franklin and John Adams.
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Wrote the The Federalist Papers
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Father of American Medicine; financed oldest African – American church
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A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the U.S. is governed
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The first ten amendments in the US constitution
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American Revolutionary artist whose Declaration of Independence was used on the back of the two dollar bill.
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French sociologist and political theorist who traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he codified in “Democracy in America” (1835), one of the most influential books of the 19th century.
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"Liberty cannot be established without mortality, nor morality without faith"
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"The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all."
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"Each individual allows himself to be clapped in chains because that the other end of the chain is held not by a man or a class but by the people themselves."
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"When i refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of making"
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"The american Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
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Principle gives a government control of all property within its sovereign jurisdiction, and grants it the power to take and use property for public purposes provided that compensation is given to the owners.
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The official motto of the United States