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Muster Table Of The Dauphin Adm 36-9970, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association
Muster Table Of The Dauphin Adm 36-9970, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association
Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783
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“The Mount Atlas Of Independence”: Forgotten Founder Roger Sherman, Kaitlyn Kenney
“The Mount Atlas Of Independence”: Forgotten Founder Roger Sherman, Kaitlyn Kenney
Masters Theses
Roger Sherman is perhaps the most important forgotten founder of the United States. Best known for creating the Connecticut compromise which reconciled the VA and NJ plans by having the House of Representatives be based on population and having each state have one vote in the Senate, he also was instrumental throughout the founding. He was the only man to sign and help draft every major founding document of the United States, one of a select group of self-taught founders and a man who served in practically every civil service position imaginable. Born in Massachusetts, Sherman would move to Connecticut …
The Foundation Of Freedom: Natural Rights And State Power In Revolutionary Massachusetts, Joshua Paul Dunkelberger
The Foundation Of Freedom: Natural Rights And State Power In Revolutionary Massachusetts, Joshua Paul Dunkelberger
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
This research project is an attempt to explain the political mindset which drove the actions of the Massachusetts Patriots during the American Revolution. The British government’s attempts to assert increased control over the American colonies, beginning with the Sugar and Stamp Acts in 1764-1765, initiated a decade-long political struggle between Britain and America. During that struggle, all politically active Americans had to wrestle with questions of where their rights came from, the role of government in relation to those rights, and the constitutional limits of a government’s power over the governed. The question of the origin of rights was thus …
Use Of The Declaration Of Independence As A Military Recruitment Tool During The American Revolution, Marvin L. Simner
Use Of The Declaration Of Independence As A Military Recruitment Tool During The American Revolution, Marvin L. Simner
History Publications
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