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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Bottom Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Indpendence
He says everybody has natural rights. Life, liberty, and property.
If the government isn't protecting those rights. We have a duty to over throw that government.
Popular sovereignty, which states that all government power come from the people. -
Battle of Saratoga
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Constitutional Convention
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Constitution was ratified
They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which "We the people of the United States" entered.
There was also a separation of powers among the judicial, legislative and executive; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu. -
British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
