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Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony
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Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War
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Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey
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a merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution
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a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain
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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
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Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia,
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Adopted by the thirteen American colonies on July 4, 1776, the document is regarded as the best-written statement of individual rights in history
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The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention—now known as the Constitutional Convention
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out of many, one (the motto of the US).
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Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States Bill of Rights
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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"
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a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution
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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. It was adopted as the nation's motto in 1956