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2 days ago · Introduction. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored principally by George Mason (1725–1792), stands as one of the most elegant positive statements of the political philosophy of the American Revolution. Written to accompany Virginia’s new constitution (authored mostly by Mason), which would be ratified on June 29, the Declaration of ...
3 days ago · Peyton Randolph, the First President of the Continental Congress. Peyton Randolph of Virginia was the first President of Congress. He served from September 5, 1774, to October 22, 1774. He was nominated by Thomas Lynch of South Carolina. Randolph came from a wealthy family in Virginia. He studied at Oxford and became a lawyer.
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Abigail Adams’s seemingly sincere insistence that Congress “remember the ladies” when making new laws, John Adams’s seemingly ham-handed initial response, and his May 1776 message to Massachusetts jurist James Sullivan (1744–1808) highlight the complexity of Americans’ thoughts regarding the ends and means of government.
4 days ago · The most important portions of Bernard’s proposals are reprinted below from the original edition. 1. The Kingdom of Great Britain is imperial; that is, sovereign, and not subordinate to or dependent upon any earthly power.
1 day ago · Roger Sherman (CT), Edmund Randolph (VA) and Pierce Butler (SC) all objected, preferring two or three persons in the executive, as the ancient Roman Republic had when appointing consuls. Nathaniel Gorham was Chair of the Committee of the Whole, so Washington sat in the Virginia delegation where everyone could see how he voted. The vote for a ...
3 days ago · Randolph’s funeral in Philadelphia was believed to have been the largest held in the city. His body was kept in a vault at Christ Church until November 1776. Edmund Randolph escorted the body to Williamsburg, where it was laid to rest next to his father in the crypt of the Wren Chapel of the College of William and Mary.
3 days ago · John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is widely regarded ...
