Us History Key Terms(Foundation of American Goverment)

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  • Charles Carroll

  • Declaration of independence

    The Declaration of Independence is the founding of the american political tradition. It articulates the fundamental ideas that form the american nation.

  • In God We Trust

    is the official motto of the united states. it was adopted as the nations motto in 1956 as an alternative or replacement to the unofficial motto of E Pluribus unum.

  • E Pluribus Unum

  • U.S. Constitution

    a document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the united states is governed.

  • Firth Amendment

    no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment

  • Bill of Rights

  • John Peter Muhlenberg

  • Benjamin Rush

  • John Jay

  • John Witherspoon

  • John Trumbull Sr

  • John Hancock

  • Eminent Domain

  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Liberty, Egalitarianism,Individualism,Populism, and Laissez-faire