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John Nixon (1733 – December 31, 1808) was a financier and official from Philadelphia who served as a militia officer in the American Revolutionary War.On July 8, 1776, he made the first public proclamation of the Declaration of Independence and read it from the steps of the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall.
History of the United States of America. Kathy Leigh. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904. 275–279. Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain made the modern world. Publisher: Penguin Australia (2008). 422 pages. Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution 1763–1776.
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the United States last had a budget surplus during fiscal year 2001, though the national debt still increased. [47] From fiscal years 2001 to 2009, spending increased by 6.5% of gross domestic product (from 18.2% to 24.7%) while taxes declined by 4.7% of GDP (from 19.5% to 14.8%).
The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776–1790 (1961) online; Herring, William Rodney. "The Rhetoric of Credit, the Rhetoric of Debt: Economic Arguments in Early America and Beyond." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 19.1 (2016): 45–82. Kohn, Richard H. "The Inside History of the Newburgh Conspiracy: America and the Coup ...
The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299002039. Jensen, Merrill (1943). "The Idea of a National Government During the American Revolution". Political Science Quarterly. 58 (3): 356– 379. doi:10.2307/2144490. JSTOR ...
This peremptory action seemed appropriate to many during the crises of 1777 and 1778 but less so in the later years of the Revolution, and the moderate Whigs gradually became the majority. Dickinson's election to the Supreme Executive Council was the beginning of a counterrevolution against the Constitutionalists.