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John Trumbull Sr.
The original spelling Trumble was changed for an unknown reason was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. he was the only colonial governor at the start of the Revolution to take up the rebel cause. -
John Witherspoon
He was born Feb 5 1723 and died November 15 1794.
President of College of New Jersey. -
John Hancock
Was a merchant smuggler statesman and prominent patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of yhe second continental congress and was the first and third Governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. -
charles carroll
Know as charles carroll of carrollton or charles carroll III to distinguish him from his similarly name relatives was a welthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the kingdom of great britain. He served as a delegate to the continental congress and later as first United States Senator for Maryland. -
John Jay
Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and government officials in New York City. Ge became a lawyer and joined the New York committee of correspandence and organized opposition to British rule. -
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush was born December 24 1745.
He was a Professor of Chemistry at the College of Philadelphia. In 1769 was a writer member of the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia. He was elected to Pennsyivania provincial conference.
Elected to Continental Congress. -
John Peter Muhlenberg
He was born in october 1 1746 and he died october 1 1807.
the name of the school he want to philadelphia academy ( university of philadephia). John Peter was also a major general in the Continental Army in 1783.He returning a hero, he was elected to the Supreme Executive Council in 1784 and served and Pennsylvania's vice president from 1785 to 1788. He was elected to the First Congress ( 1788-17890. -
Laissez-faire
is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies. -
E Pluribus Unum
The blow sketch of their design accompanied a detailed description of their idea for the new nation's official emblem.
A motto's purpose is to express the theme of a seal's imagery - especially that of the shieed. -
Declaration of Independence
In 1776 the congress announced that the thirteen american colonies at war with great Britain. regarded themselves as thirteen nwely independent sovereign states and no longer apart od the British Empire. Instead they dormed a new mation the United States of AMERICA -
U.S Constitution
Since the Constitution came into force in 1789 it has been amended twenty-seven times. In general the first ten amendments known collectively as the Bill of Rights offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government. The majority of the seventeen later amendments expand individual civil rights. -
Bill of Rights
On September 25 the First Congress of the United States therefor proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments, December 15 by three-fourths of the state legislatures constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constituion know as the Bill of Rights. -
Fifth Amendment
The clause incorporated within the fifth amendment outline basic constitutional limits on police procedure. The framers derived the grand juries clause and the due process clause from the Magna Carta dating back to 1215. -
Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles
On May 9 1831 two young frenchmen sailed into the harbor of Newport Rhode island and began a remarkable journey through the United States. -
Liberty
Frenchman Edouard de Laboulaye first proposed the idea of a monument for the U.S in 1865 -
populism
Political parties and politicians often use the terms populist and populism as pejoratives against their opponents. -
Eminent Domain
The property may be taken either for government use or by delegation to third parties who will devote it to public or civic use or in some case to economic development. -
In God we trust
The first paper currency bearing the motto entered circulation on Oct 1 1957. This motto was first used on paper money in 1957 when it appeared on the one-dollar silver certificate. -
Individualism
Individualism makes the individual its focus and so starts "with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation
