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Vocabulary
| Term | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Constitution | is the supreme law of the United States of America. | |
| Bill of Rights | is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. | |
| John trumbull Sr. | John Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings. | |
| John Peter Muhlenberg | 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 | |
| John Hancock | John Hancock was a merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. | |
| Charles Carroll | was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. | |
| John Witherspoon | signing the Declaration of Independence and contributing to the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1782 | |
| 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. | |
| Fifth Amendment | The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects a person against being compelled to be a witness against himself or herself in a criminal case. | |
| Eminent Domain | Is the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use. | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. | |
| Liberty | freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control. | |
| Egalitarianism | meaning equal or, rarely, equalitarianism or equali | |
| Individualism | a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. | |
| Populism | is a strange political beast , no body really knows about it | |
| Laissez-faire | a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. | |
| E Pluribus Unum | out of many, one (the motto of the US). | |
| In God we trust | a motto appearing on U.S. currency. | |
| Declaration of Independence | is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies |
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