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John Trumbull Sr.
American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army -
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John Witherspoon
John Knox Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States. -
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John Hancock
John Hancock was an American merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. -
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Charles Carroll
A wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain -
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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. -
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Benjamin Rush
A Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian. -
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John Peter Muhlenberg
An American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and political figure in the newly independent United States. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the statement from the thirteen colonies, to the British Empire, that they were separating. In this document, they stated the reasons for the parting. -
E Pluribus Unum
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U.S. Constitution
The document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. -
5th 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" -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was a Bill made to install the first 10 amendments into the United States Government. They installed this document to give the people of America more rights, and a way to defend themselves, from a possible future corrupt Government. -
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Alexis De Tocqueville
A French diplomat, political scientist, and historian. -
Five Principles
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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
The motto that replaced "e pluribus unum"
