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Essay
A History of the Thanksgiving Holiday
Thanksgiving stands as one of the most American of holidays, an autumnal ritual fixed in the imagination as honoring the piety and perseverance of the nation’s earliest arrivals during colonial days....
Essay
James Madison and the Constitution
James Madison had just turned twenty-five when he took up his first public office as a delegate...
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Declaration of Independence
Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The first draft denounced the slave trade, but that passage was omitted from final text.
Glossary Term – Event
American flag authorized
The Continental Congress authorized a flag with thirteen red and white stripes and thirteen white stars on a field of blue.
Glossary Term – Person
Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase (1741–1811) was a delegate to the Continental Congress (1774–1778) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Though he opposed ratification, Chase was largely responsible for drafting clauses protecting trial by jury and freedom of the press. In 1796 he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court by Washington. Eight years later he was impeached at the behest of Thomas Jefferson, the Republican president, after Chase, a Federalist, spoke out against democratic “mobocracy” from the bench. Chase was not convicted, however,...