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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.
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He was the first person to sign the Decleration of Independence and he is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the DOI.
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Signed the Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey.
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He was a speaker for the American Independence in Brittain and he is a representative of Maryland in the American Congress.
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One of the founding fathers and signer of the Treaty of Paris.
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Was a founding father of the United States.
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American clergyman.
Continetial army soldier during the American Revolutionary War.
Political figure in the newly independent United States. -
It announces and explains the separation from Brittain and to declare them selfes as a independent nation.
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This year the United States Congress made it the official motto of the country.
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the supreme law of the United States.
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Was passed by congress on this date.
It protects you from being held for committing a crime unless you have been indicted correctly by the police. -
A part of the Fifth Amendment. The definition of Eminent Domain is that the power takes private property for public use by a state, or regulate it by exercising their Police Power.
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For greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power.
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Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire. This is the five principles de Tocqueville came up with in his book "Democracy of America".
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In this year this got to be the new official motto of the US, replacement for "e pluribus unum".
