Foundations of the American Government

  • John Trumbull Sr.

    John Trumbull Sr.
    Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. 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

    John Witherspoon
    John Knox Witherspoon was a Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey.
  • John Hancock

    John Hancock
    Signer of the declaration of independence
  • charel carroll

    charel carroll
    Charles Carroll was born into a wealthy Roman Catholic family in Annapolis Maryland. He began his rather remarkable formal education at the age of 8, when he was packed off to France to attend a Jesuit College at St. Omer.
  • john jay

    john jay
    John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States.
  • Benjamin Rush

    Benjamin Rush
    Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder
  • John peter Mulhenberg

    John peter Mulhenberg
    John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and political figure in the newly independent United States.
  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence
    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.
  • Constitution

    Constitution
    The Constitution is our plan for government. The Articles of the Constitution talk about the duties of the
    three main parts of government: the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch.
    The articles also talk about the separate powers of the Federal and State government, and how to change
    the Constitution.
  • U.S Constitution

    U.S Constitution
    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • fifth amendment

    fifth amendment
    The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides, "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,
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights
    The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  • Eniment Domain

    the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
  • E Pluribus unum

    E Pluribus unum
    out of many, one (the motto of the US).
  • In God we Trust

    In God we Trust
    In replace ment of E plurus unum