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John Trumbull Sr.
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony -
john peter muhlenberg
Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War -
John Witherspoon
Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey -
John Handcock
a merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution -
Charles Carroll
a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain -
John Jay
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 -
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, -
Declaration of independence
Adopted by the thirteen American colonies on July 4, 1776, the document is regarded as the best-written statement of individual rights in history -
U.S consitution
The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention—now known as the Constitutional Convention -
“E Pluribus Unum”
out of many, one (the motto of the US). -
Bill of rights
Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States Bill of Rights -
Fith amendment
"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" -
Alexis de Tocqueville
a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution -
Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire
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Eminent domain
the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. -
"In god we trust"
"In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States. It was adopted as the nation's motto in 1956