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Founding Documents

Founding Documents. 1. Declaration of Independence National Creed vs. Legal Text 2. Articles of Confederation Sovereignty; Liberty vs. Power; Representation 3. Virginia Act Establishing Religious Freedom 4. Constitution

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Founding Documents

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  1. Founding Documents 1. Declaration of Independence National Creed vs. Legal Text 2. Articles of Confederation Sovereignty; Liberty vs. Power; Representation 3. Virginia Act Establishing Religious Freedom 4. Constitution Representation; Liberty vs. Power; Checks and Balances; Bill of Rights 5. What the American Revolution Changed

  2. First Continental Congress, September 1774

  3. Second Continental Congress, April 1775

  4. Lexington, 18 April 1775

  5. SovereigntyLiberty vs. PowerExpress vs. Implied PowersFears of Centralized PowerDemands for RepresentationLimited Congressional DutiesAs Problems Increase the Republic is Reconsidered

  6. 13 Sovereign States = Fiscal Chaos and International Embarrassment

  7. Alexander Hamilton

  8. Shays’s Rebellion, 1787

  9. James Madison

  10. Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists “ . . . the whole of the American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof; thus building a wall of separation between church and state.”

  11. Independence HallPhiladelphiaMay 1787

  12. “What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 - 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.”

  13. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Out of this rabble arise a people who would defy kings.”

  14. George Robert Twelve Hewes

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