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• Common Sense
  ...RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an u ...ce of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewis
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• Whiskey Rebellion
  ...frontier, so whiskey often served as a [[medium of exchange]]. For poorer people who were paid in whiskey, the excise was essentially an [[income tax]] that ...tral state. Furthermore, they did not understand why they should pay other people's debts. Some states had repaid their war debt. The Federalists were buying
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• Jeffersonian democracy
  ...ical regard for that cardinal principle of Jeffersonian Democracy, and the People are the sole and safe depository of all power, principles and opinions whic ...y to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; it should be watched closely and circumscribed in its
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• Osceola
  ...in Florida. Of mixed parentage, [[Muscogee people|Creek]], [[Ulster Scots people|Scots-Irish]], and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the ...re reared as traditional Creek and gained their status from their mother's people. Ann McQueen was also mixed-race Creek; her father, James McQueen, was Scot
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• Frederick Douglass
  | url = http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324 ...s met and fell in love with [[Anna Murray-Douglass|Anna Murray]], a [[Free people of color|free black]] woman in Baltimore about five years older than he. He
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• Sequoyah
  ...f> (another example being [[Shong Lue Yang]]). After seeing its worth, the people of the [[Cherokee Nation (19th century)|Cherokee Nation]] rapidly began to ...Mooney]], a prominent [[anthropologist]] and [[historian]] of the Cherokee people, quoted a cousin as saying that as a little boy, he spent his early years w
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• Lysander Spooner
  ...ladelphia]], and New York.<ref>McMaster, John Bach. 1910. A History of the People of the United States. D. Appleton and Company. p. 116</ref> Stamps could be ...forms of government intervention in the free market made it difficult for people to start their own businesses. For one, he believed that laws against high
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• Thomas Paine
  .... In 1802, he returned to the U.S. where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christia [[Category:18th-century English people]]
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• Declaration of Independence
  When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and ...rm of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foun
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• Benjamin Tucker
  {{Libertarian socialism|People }} {{American socialism |expanded=People}}
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• Jefferson Davis
  ...tate governors, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, At the start of the war, nearly 21 million people lived in the North compared to 9 million in the South. The North had vastly
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• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  ...se was to try to make people in the south feel more empathetic towards the people they were forcing into slavery.<ref>Vollaro, Daniel R. 'Lincoln, Stowe, And ...'s attention. Stowe showed that slavery touched all of society, beyond the people directly involved as masters, traders and slaves. Her novel added to the de
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• James Monroe
  {{Other people}} ...militia to suppress [[Gabriel's Rebellion]]. Gabriel and 26 other enslaved people who participated were all hanged for treason. Monroe thought that foreign a
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• None of the Above
  ...Yeltsin]] to later say the "none of the above" option "helped convince the people they had real power even in a rigged election, and [it] played a role in bu ...r=IBN Live |date = 29 January 2009 |accessdate=23 April 2011}}</ref> The [[People's Union for Civil Liberties]], a [[non-governmental organisation]], filed a
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• Virginia Declaration of Rights
  II That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenabl ...to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that
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• Peter Kropotkin
  {{Anarcho-communism sidebar |People}} ...at fresh discoveries but to aid in diffusing existing knowledge among the people at large. Accordingly, he refused the offer and returned to St. Petersburg,
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• Democratic-Republican Party
  ...dential election]]. The Federalists&nbsp;— too elitist to appeal to most people&nbsp;— faded away, and totally collapsed after 1815. The Republicans, des ...] "I see by a paper of last evening that even in New York a meeting of the people has taken place, at the instance of the Republican Party, and that a commit
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• H. L. Mencken
  {{about|the writer|other people named Mencken|Mencken (surname)}} ...= http://www.al.com/south/literary3.html | title = The Real South: Famous People | publisher = AL | contribution = Literary Figures: Sally Haardt}}.</ref> H
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• Ayn Rand
  {{See also|List of people influenced by Ayn Rand}} ...rvnb|Gladstein|2009|p=122}}</ref> Rand's image also appears on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States#R|1999]] [[Postage stamps and postal history
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• Robert LeFevre
  ...as [[United Nations Day]]—and an adviser to Harry Everingham's "We, The People!". The U.S. Day Committee made headlines in 1954 when LeFevre led an attac ...moved to Santa Ana, California. The Freedom School was designed to educate people in LeFevre's philosophy about the meaning of [[Freedom (political)|freedom]
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