Founding Documents 1. Declaration of Independence National Creed vs. Legal Text 2. Articles of Confederation Sovereignty; Liberty vs. Power; Representation.

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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

First Continental Congress, September 1774

Second Continental Congress, April 1775

Lexington, 18 April 1775

Sovereignty Liberty vs. Power Express vs Sovereignty Liberty vs. Power Express vs. Implied Powers Fears of Centralized Power Demands for Representation Limited Congressional Duties As Problems Increase the Republic is Reconsidered

13 Sovereign States = Fiscal Chaos and International Embarrassment

Alexander Hamilton

Shays’s Rebellion, 1787

James Madison

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.”

Independence Hall Philadelphia May 1787

“What do we mean by the Revolution. The war “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.”

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

George Robert Twelve Hewes