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A national day of prayer has been recognized as a part of our country's heritage since it was declared by the Continental Congress in 1775.... Officially it is the first Thursday of every May; this year it falls on May 5. We could trust the spirit of President Abraham Lincoln who, in despair, said, "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." This is the anxiety felt by 13-million American children who are "Poorest in a Land of Plenty," title given a film produced by the National Council of Churces, to be introduced on Mother's Day, May 14 (NBC, 1 pm). The NCC's statistics show that "One out of every five children in America is poor; among 20 industrialized nations the USA has the third highest infant mortality rate; among industrialized nations only the USA and South Africa fail to provide comprehensive health care for children and pregnant women.

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Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. Edited from the Original Records in the Library of Congress by Roscoe R. Hill. Volume XXXIV, January 21, 1788, to March 2, 1789. (Washington: Government Printing Office. 1937. Pp. x, 659. $3.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/43.4.899 ◽

1938 ◽

Keyword(s):

Government Printing ◽

Library Of Congress ◽

Continental Congress

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Letters of Members of the Continental Congress. Edited by Edmund C. Burnett. Volume II., July 5, 1776, to December 31, 1777. (Washington, D. C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1923. Pp. lxxiii, 638. Paper, $5.00; cloth, $5.50.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/29.1.151 ◽

1923 ◽

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Carnegie Institution ◽

Continental Congress ◽

Carnegie Institution Of Washington

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A Revolution in Sporting Culture

They Will Have Their Game ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501705496.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kenneth Cohen

Keyword(s):

Social Conflict ◽

Sporting Events ◽

Common People ◽

Continental Congress ◽

Sporting Culture ◽

Time Period

Chapter Two covers the same time period as Chapter One, but draws from newspapers and letters instead of financial records to emphasize the perspective of participants rather than investors. The result is that readers see how investors failed to create the spatial and behavioral distinction they desired, and so any attempt to claim exclusive gentility triggered aggravation and social conflict rather than awe and deference. This result was also influenced by the imperial crisis going on at the same time, which emphasized notions of “liberty” and “equality” and so made common people less likely to accept efforts to craft distinction in public settings such as sporting events. The chapter closes by examining how the imperatives of running a popular insurgency led the Continental Congress to essentially ban genteel sport as part of its Articles of Association in 1774.

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The Impact of the First Continental Congress and the Local Committees of Safety

A War of Religion ◽

10.1057/9780230583214_10 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 123-139

Author(s):

James B. Bell

Keyword(s):

Continental Congress ◽

The Impact

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The Madness of these Deluded People

10.7591/cornell/9781501754012.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 138-155

Author(s):

Brad A. Jones

Keyword(s):

British Empire ◽

Free Trade ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Religious Freedom ◽

Early Years ◽

Political Liberty ◽

Common Cause ◽

Continental Congress ◽

The North ◽

The North Atlantic

This chapter evaluates how loyal Britons struggled to strip rebellious Americans of their Britishness. Their counternarrative, a British common cause, was crafted in the days after the thunderclap that the First Continental Congress sounded all across the British Empire. Popular understandings of loyalism celebrated a renewed defense of monarchy and legal government, and remained committed to basic Protestant Whig principles like free trade, political liberty, and religious freedom. But the promulgators of this cause also continued to argue that their opponents were nothing more than deceived subjects who were misled by a few self-interested colonists — mostly New Englanders — into war against their own nation. Loyal subjects thus failed to make rebellious Americans into dangerous enemies. This failure presented real problems for loyal subjects across the North Atlantic. If American Patriots were just misguided Britons, then it stood to reason that the Patriot cause presented no real threat to popular understandings of Britishness. In part, this explains why so many loyal subjects were reluctant to support the war in the early years.

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1. Words, images, meanings

The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780190273514.003.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

R. B. Bernstein

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

United States Constitution ◽

Benjamin Franklin ◽

Alexander Hamilton ◽

James Madison ◽

George Washington ◽

John Adams ◽

Founding Fathers ◽

Continental Congress

The phrase “founding fathers” is central to how Americans talk about politics, and “Words, images, meanings” describes when the phrase was first coined, what it really means, and how artists have depicted the “founding fathers”—those who helped to found the United States as a nation and a political experiment. This group has two subsets. First are the Signers, delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who in July 1776 declared American independence and signed the Declaration of Independence. Second are the Framers, the delegates to the Federal Convention who in 1787 framed the United States Constitution. They include Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

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