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What the people reassertioin of rights again an oppressive ruler
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it was the first doc to establish self-gov in the new world
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it was an early agreement between the colonial communities that established a representative government best on number of Massachusetts colonies
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It outlined specific constitutional and civil rights
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provided great britain enormous territiorial gains in north america
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Serve as the governing body of the 13 American colonies during the American revolution
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Raise armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomates ad the olive branch petition.
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The first important proposal to convince teh colonies as a collective whole united uner one government
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it established for the first time in world history a new nation based on the first principle of the rule of law
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it provided enough of a structure for the nation to survive during those 8 years
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exposed the weakness of the government under the articles of confederation
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it created the idea of representation according to population
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favored giving control of the federal government to the states
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every enslaved American would be accounted as three-fifths for a person for taxation and representative purposes