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Eminent Domain
It is the power of the state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use. However, this power can be legislatively delegated by the state municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are authorized by the legislature to exercise the functions of public character. -
John Hancock
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. -
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. -
e pluribus unum
"Out of many, one" The meaning of the phrase originates from the concept that out of the union of the original Thirteen Colonies emerged a new single nation. It was suggested by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere at the time of the American Revolution . -
John Witherspoon
Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.In July 1776 he voted to adopt the Virginia resolution for independence. In answer to an objection that the country was not yet ready for independence, according to tradition he replied that it "was not only ripe for the measure, but in danger of rotting for the want of it." -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jeferson wrote the declaration of independence.
It was a breakup letter with England. It has a 5 sections to it .They wanted a new form of government. -
John Peter Muhlenberg
From 1776 to 1783, he also served in the Continental Army, as Colonel., Brigadier-General and finally as a Major-General.Later in 1784 his German neighbors elected him as Montgomery County's representative to Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council, the state's governing body under its first constitution. At the end of his three-year term, Muhlenberg served as Vice-President of this body. -
Charles Carroll
Carroll returned to Maryland in 1778 to assist in the formation of a state government. Carroll was re-elected to the Continental Congress in 1780, but he declined. He was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1781 and served there continuously until 1800. -
John Jay
He was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, negotiator and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–1795). He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. -
Benjamin Rush
signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a leader in Pennsylvania's ratification of the Constitution in 1788. He was active in the Sons of Liberty and was elected to attend the provincial conference to send delegates to the Continental Congress. -
fifth Amendment
The right that allows witnesses to decline to answer questions where the answers might incriminate them, and generally without having to suffer a penalty for asserting the right. -
U.S Constitution
Is the supreme law of the United States.[1] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts -
Bill of Rights
the constitution contained few specific guarantees of individual rights. Two out of tree legislatures approved these amendments by 1791. Guaranteed freedom of speech, petition, press, assembly and religion. No excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment. -
Alex de Tocqueville
Author of Democracy in America. His view on government reflects his belief in liberty and the need for individuals to be able to act freely while respecting others' rights.Tocqueville explicitly cites inequality as being incentive for poor to become rich and notes that it is not often that two generations within a family maintain success and that it is inheritance laws that split. -
In God We Trust
Is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida. "In God We Trust" first appeared on the two-cent piece in 1864[3] and has appeared on paper currency since 1957. A law passed in a Joint Resolution by the 84th Congress (P.L. 84-140) and approved by President Dwight Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, declared "In God We Trust" must appear on American currency.
