History, Pages 73-76

Soldiers Leaving For Home

With so much bad news pouring out of Canada, morale was low among the troops between boston. Over 4,000 of them went home. Among the remaining  regiments, many were sick, hurt, and few signed on for another tour of duty.

The Two-pronged British Assault

Washington accurately thought that the next strike would be New York. Even during the siege of Boston, some preparations wee made for the defense of lower Manhattan and long Island. However, Washington knew that without the slightest semblance of a navy, he could put up merely a temporary defense. Eventually, he knew,the Americans would be driven out.

History, pages 69-72

Social Justice and the General Welfare

To protect the life and liberty of all freemen, there was an established catalogue of penalties for the loss of each limb or any other act of maiming or injury to an individual.

What was not provided

They didn't provide for any executive to speak with one voice for all of the states in time of emergency.  Also, They didn't provide for any means of enforcing the decrees of Congress except by sending out an army to declare war on an offending state.

History, Pages 65-68

By the time the thirteen colonies in America adopted their Declaration of Independence, they had already been meeting together as a confederation of states or as a congress of states for nearly two years. They did all of this without authority from England and without any formal constitution.

All the other things were Articles (laws) that the founding father created.

History, Pages 58-61

Social Justice and the General Welfare

To protect the life and liberty of all freemen, there was an established catalogue of penalties for the loss of each limb or any other act of maiming or injury to an individual.

Channels of Justice

In america the founders decided to make laws to protect women. Women were protected protected by law from violence and abuse or forced marriages. 

History, Pages 55-57

The Freemen

The foundation of the Anglo-Saxons society was the freemen. They looked upon the king as their sovereign and defender but were subject to no other master except those whom they chose to serve.

Beginning of a Class of Bondsmen by 1066

During the latest states of the Anglo-Saxons they developed servants and salves. Nevertheless, the law still made it so that they weren't abused and treated badly.  They even received welfare. 

History, Pages 46-50

Search for the Balanced Center

All the founders were all born citizens of the British Empire, which was structured under a limited form of Ruler's law. In the American colonies, some elements of People's Law were gradually emerging. 

The Extreme Exertion Required to Write a Sound Constitution

In 1775, when the leaders of Virginia saw that the king was disowning his American colonies and treating the like enemies, they recognized that they might be forced into a state of independence sooner than they expected.

History, Pages 41, 45

Measuring Government-

When the founders created the government they wanted it to be almost powerless and controlled by the people. the measure sign shows that the far left says rulers law and the far right says no law. Today, we are very far to the left. But when the founders created the government they wanted almost no laws.

Too Much or Too Little

Powers, being given for some certain purpose, should be proportionate to that purpose. It is necessary to give powers, to a certain extent, to any government. If the government is too small, it must moulder and decay, if it's too large, the people must be oppressed. 

Two Opposite Systems of Law

the founders knew that they were pioneering new land. In the past people lived under the rulers law. Also in the past all different territories went by these classes, 

1. A monarchy, which is a royal government by "the one"

2. An autocracy, which is also a government by "the one" or a dictator.

3. A plutocracy, which is government by an exclusive, wealthy class.

4. An oligarchy, which is government by an exclusive few.

Thomas Jefferson, Pages 22-31

On June 2, 1776, the Congress assembled as an informal "Committee of the Whole" to freely discuss Jefferson's Manifesto of Freedom. The Declaration was published by the Pennsylvania evening post on july 6, the copies were sent to the committees of safety in the various states by John Hancock, President of the congress. 

Thomas Jefferson, Pages 15-21,

Thomas Jefferson was born april 13, 1743 in Virginia.  When he was born George Washington was already eleven years old and Benjamin franklin was thirty-seven. Thomas loved his father very much. He was the hardest worker and strongest man he had ever seen. Thats why it was such i shock for him when he unexpectedly died. Thomas was then the man of the house and had to provide for his family. 

When Thomas turned sixteen he was excepted into the College of William and Mary in Virginia's capital city of Williamsburg. When he joined he was ranked as an advanced student. Jefferson first dug into Latin and Greek so he could read classical works in the original languages. He loved learning so much that at parties he could pull away from his dearest friends and return to his studies. Amazingly, Thomas graduated from college at the age of nineteen.

History - Introduction TMOA p. 6-12

The Founders Held a Long-Range View of the Future

The founders believed that their commonwealth of freedom would eventually encompass the

entire North American continent. Also as far as population went they predicted that there would 

be about 50 million people. John adams also said that one day America would have around 200 

and 300 million. Today we have an amazing number of around 242,530,000 Americans.

The Founders Sense of Mission

As John Jay pointed out, the American people had been literally thrust into an amazing

accumulation of fortunate circumstances which obligated them to determine whether or not a 

body of approximately three million human beings could organize themselves into a free nation.

America Becomes the Hope of the World

America was known for it's freedom and a hope for a good life. So many Europeans who 

didn't have good jobs or just wanted to have a free life moved to the America.

Responsibility of the People Under the American System

It was a basic principle of the American experiment that it was to be a government of the

people, by the people, and for the people.

History - Introduction to The Making of America - p. 1-6

- The Three Things All Mankind Is Seeking

Fist of all, mankind longs for freedom, both personally and nationally. Second, mankind longs for prosperity, again both personally and nationally. Third, Mankind longs for peace. To achieve these, the Constitution of the United States was written.

- The Founders' Freedom Formula

The Founding Fathers wanted to make a country where there was only peace and where the people could live in happiness and not have to constantly be at war with other countries. o the founders sat down and invented one. Basically, the wanted to create a place of peace and with civilized people who didn't want to constantly fight for power.

-The Founders' View of Human Nature

Clinton Rossiter wrote, there is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality - and none of these great good without stability and order".

  -The Miracle of America

After several thousands years, the American charter of liberty turned out to be the first successful attempt to build a whole civilization on the principle of freedom. Americans, became the first free people ever. 

-The Culture Soil in Which America Freedom Grew

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said that the American people should all speak the same language, professing the same religion, very similar in their manners and customs, and should fight side by side throughout all long bloody wars.