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Jun 12, 1215
magna carta
The document was a series of written promises between the king and his subjects that he, the king, would govern England and deal with its people according to the customs of feudal law. Magna Carta promised laws that were good and fair. -
petition of right
that no freeman should be forced to pay any tax, loan, or benevolence, unless in accordance with an act of parliament. that no freeman should be imprisoned contrary to the laws of the land . -
english bill of rights
By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament. By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power. -
albany plan of union
That the said general government be administered by a President-General, to be appointed and supported by the crown; and a Grand Council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the several Colonies met in their respective assemblies. president general shall meet for the first time at the city of Philadelphia, being called by the President-General as soon as conveniently may be after his appointment. -
boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. One took place 8 month after the incident. -
the boston tea party
took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company. they seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
first continental congress
The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British. Most colonists continued to quietly accept British rule until Parliament's enactment of the Tea Act in 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a monopoly on the American tea trade. -
decleration of independence
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. -
the virginia plan
it would create a new constitution by revising the articles. the virginia plan called for a new government with3 seperate branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. -
the new jersey plan
retained the unicameral congress of the confederation, with each of the states equally represented. the new jersey plan also called for a federal executive of more than one person.
