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Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
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Boston Masacre
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Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
Defects the people's natural rights
Governments job to protect those rights
If not we can over throw them -
Battle of Saratoga
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British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
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Constitutional Convention
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Constitution was ratifed
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 branches; a concept borrowed from Montesquieu.
