NCES.CE.C&G.1 - Analyze the foundations and development of American government in terms of principles and values.
NCES.CE.C&G.1.1
Civics & Economics
Explain how the tensions over power and authority led America's founding fathers to develop a constitutional democracy (e.g., mercantilism, salutary neglect, taxation and representation, boycott and protest, independence, American Revolution, Articles of Confederation, Ben Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Son of Liberty, etc.).