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Charles Carroll
Financed American Revolution with his own money; Catholic -
Benjamin Franklin
Helped write the Declaration of Independence. -
John Witherspoon
1st president of Princeton; served in 1st Continental Congress -
Declaration of Independence
A document that explained the reason why colonist wanted indolence and explained that the gov should protect the unalienable rights of citizens -
John Hancock
King of the Smugglers; Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. -
John Peter Muhlenberg
Minister became member of the “Black Regiment” which were ministers who recruited volunteers for the Revolutionary War -
E Pluribus Unum
Unofficial motto of the United States. Which was adopted when the Great Seal of the United States was created and adopted -
John Jay
Negotiated the a preliminary treaty with Great Britain on behalf of America alongside Ben Franklin and John Adams. -
Alexander Hamilton
Wrote the The Federalist Papers -
Benjamin Rush
Father of American Medicine; financed oldest African – American church -
U.S Constitution
A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the U.S. is governed -
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments in the US constitution -
John Trumbull
American Revolutionary artist whose Declaration of Independence was used on the back of the two dollar bill. -
Alexis de Tocqueville
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. -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Liberty
"Liberty cannot be established without mortality, nor morality without faith" -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Egalitarianism
"The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all." -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Individualism
"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." -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Populism
"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" -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Laissez-Faire
"The american Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." -
Eminent Domain
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. -
"In God We Trust"
The official motto of the United States