Continental Congress

<p><span class="deck">Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Resigning his commission, the military hero joined Congress in acting out a strict protocol to symbolize the supremacy of civil government</span> </p>

<p>After the Revolution, Washington returned to farming at Mount Vernon but eventually called for that he wished a “Convention of the People” to establish a “Federal Constitution”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> OR</span> DON’T PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN RAM THROUGH TODAY </span></p>

<p>When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Under duress in a British prison, Richard Stockton of New Jersey had the singular misfortune to become</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A fond, canny, and surprising tour of the town where the Constitution was born</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The<em> Declaration of Independence</em> is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS…”</span></p>