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John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera.
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Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state
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John Knox Witherspoon was a Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey.
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John Hancock was a merchant, smuggler, 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 III to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States
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John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War
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The Declaration of Independence,written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776.
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"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public dange
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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In God We Trust" was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956 as an alternative or replacement to the unofficial motto of E pluribus unum, which was adopted when the Great Seal of the United States was created and adopted in 1782.
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Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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A social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
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At its root, populism is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite.
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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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Out of many, one (the motto of the US).