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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Constitutional Timeline
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
Nobles rebelled against King John and they forced him to sign an agreement for equal treatment under the law and trial by one's peers. It limited the power of the monarch by garenteeing that one would be above the law. -
Mayflower Compact
The pilgrims relized that they neded rules to govern themselves when they came off the mayflower -
Fundamnal Orers of Connecticut
Pilgrims left massachuessetts and went to conneiticut and created america's first constitution. They electe representatives as a popular vote for the governer and judges. -
Gloious Revoluion
The parliament peacefuly removed king james frme the throne and put his daughter and her husband incharge. sence then no king/queen is more powerful than the parlament. -
English Bill of Rights
Farther resticted the monarch's power. -
John Locke
He argued that people were free, equal, and idependent. He believed everyone has natural ights: life, liberty, and property -
Baron de Montesquieu
developed the idea of sepration of powers which divided the government into branches of equal power. -
Jean-Jacques Roussau
He wrote the "Social Contract" and believed that people alone had the right to determne how they should b governed.
