Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de montesquieu (1689-1755) An influential French enlightenment political thinker. His Spirit of the Laws is his best known work. It is in this work that he explains his theory of separation of powers and checks and
CONSTITUTION OF THE ED STATES OF AMERICA We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Writer of American National Anthem Francis Scott Key(1779-1843) Oh! thus be it ever. when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free he wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door
