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Jackie Mitchell In 1681, King Charles II of England officially proclaimed the charter he had granted in March to William Penn for the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania in North America. In 1776, Washington oversaw an army beginning to move after nearly a year fixed around Boston. From headquarters, he issues orders shifting regiments and relieving those on Dorchester Heights as units prepare to march south toward New York. In 1776, George Mason writes to congratulate Wa

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Jackie Mitchell In 1681, King Charles II of England officially proclaimed the charter he had granted in March to William Penn for the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania in North America. In 1776, Washington oversaw an army beginning to move after nearly a year fixed around Boston. From headquarters, he issues orders shifting regiments and relieving those on Dorchester Heights as units prepare to march south toward New York. In 1776, George Mason writes to congratulate Wa

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"No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 78

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In 1776, Washington was not lingering over Boston’s triumph. He is, as he tells Joseph Reed , “hurried in dispatching one Brigade after another for New York.” In the same letter , he reflects on politics as well as war, observing that “ Common Sense ” is working “a powerful change” in Virginia minds. In 1789, the first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reached a quorum and elected Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as it

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"The private attachments of one man might easily be satisfied; but to satisfy the private attachments of a dozen, or of twenty men, would occasion a monopoly of all the principal employments of the government in a few families, and would lead more directly to an aristocracy or an oligarchy than any measure that could be contrived." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 77

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Thomas Peterson-Mundy In 1774, the Boston Port Act was passed by the British Parliament, demanding repayment for the tea destroyed four months earlier during the Boston Tea Party. It was the first of what the British themselves called the Coercive Acts (in America, the Intolerable Acts), intended to bring the 13 colonies to heel. In 1776, in a letter , Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams , urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forg

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"There is nothing so apt to agitate the passions of mankind as personal considerations whether they relate to ourselves or to others, who are to be the objects of our choice or preference." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 76

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