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John Trumbull Sr. was the only man who served as governor in both an English colony and an American state, and he was the only governor at the start of the American Revolutionary War to take up the Patriot cause.
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A Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States.
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John Hancock was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Charles Carroll was a Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born into a wealthy family, Charles Carroll became a member of the Continental Congress as the American Revolution loomed.
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Jay was elected to the third New York Provincial Congress, where he drafted the Constitution of New York, 1777.
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Signer of the declaration of independence, as well as a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator.
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Clergyman, Continental army soldier, a pastor, and a political figure.
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A document that separates us from The British Government
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A 13-letter traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis and Novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782.
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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. It also eventually had the bill of rights.
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Document containing the first 10 US amendments.
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Protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases.
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French sociologist and political theorist. Wrote the famous book "Democracy in American".
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the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
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"In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida.
