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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The nobel forced King John to sign a document rights included equal treatment under the law and trial and peers, limited the power of the monarch guaranted that no one would be more powerful or above the law. -
Mayflower Compact
In 1620 colonists from England (Pilgrims) arrived in America and built a settlement called 'Plymouth' They felt they needed to make rules to survive. It was signed by 41 men of the pilgrims -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was America's first written constitiution called assembly of elected representatives and the popular election of governor and judges. -
Glorious Revolution
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The Parliament removed King James II and replaced him with his daughter Mary, and it showed that the parliament was now stronger than the king and that no ruler would have more power than Parliament. -
English Bill of Rights
The Paraliment drew up the English Bill of Rights in 1689. It was guarnteed free elections to the Parliament, the right to a equal trial and no more cruel and unusual punishments -
John Locke
He was a British philospher and belieed that everybody was born with natural rights. That you are born free, with rights,naturally good, and independent. People possesed rights naturally rights included life,librety, and property. -
Baron de Montesquieu
A French writer and made the idea about dividing the branches of government into diffrent parts to balance each other out. The seperation of powers is what that is called. The seperation of powers works well because it provents people from becoming too powerful or to threaten individual rights. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philospher et musican. He wrote the Social Contract and argued that the people alone had rights to decide how they should be governed.He published the social contract in 1762 -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract and argued that the people alone had the right to decide how they should be governed.
