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John Trumbull Sr.
American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army. -
John Witherspoon
Saw no conflict between faith and reason. He encouraged to test faith by experiment and experience. Witherspoon taught a president and vice president, 9 cabinet officers, 21 senators, 39 congressmen, 3 Justices, and 12 state governors. Because of him Princeton became known as the "seedbed" of revolution. Six months later Princeton became the site of strategic victory, due to his signing of The Deceleration of Independence. -
John Hancock
John Hancock was an American 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. -
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
He was elected to the Pennsylvania ratifying convention for the new federal constitution. Rush and James Wilson led the movement for adoption. He stood very strongly against slavery. Rush was known as the "Father of American psychiatry."Two of his invention that are still used today are 'The Gyrator' and 'The Tranquilizer.' -
John Peter Muhlenberg
Had a service as the chair of committee of safety in Virginia's House of Burgesses(1775) and as a member of Virginia's provincial convention in 1776, due to his contribution in the revolutionary cause. He took part in the fighting at Charleston, Brandywine, Stony Point, York Town, and Valley Forge. Muhlenberg also served as Pennsylvania's supreme executive council. He was considered a key figure in the Democrat-Republican party of Pennsylvania. -
Declaration of Independence
Is the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty. It was our way to declare our independence from Great Britain. Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The Declaration was nothing new, it was something that Jefferson summarized from John Locke and the Continental philosophers. The Declaration broke the ties between the colonies and the mother country, therefore creating independence for the colonies. -
U.S. Constitution
Constitution, United States definition. A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. It was drafted by the Constitutional Convention and later supplemented by the Bill of Rights and other amendments. -
eminent domain
the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. -
The Bill of Rights
These were response calls from different states fro greater constitutional protection for individual liberties. The Bill of Rights lists prohibitions on the government power. Federalists believed believed that the constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and states kept any power not given to the federal government. The founders saw this as the natural right of individuals to speak and worship freely. This gave us human rights and freedom. -
Fifth Amendment
The basic constitutional limits on police procedure. Consider as
capable of breaking down into the following five distinct constitutional
rights: grand juries for capital crimes, a prohibition on double jeopardy, a prohibition against required self-incrimination, a guarantee that all criminal defendants will have a fair trail, and a promise that the government will not seize private property without paying market value. Protects a person from being compelled to be a witness against.. -
Charles Carroll
Charles Carroll, known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or 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.
