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Jan 1, 1215
magna carta
The nobels rebelled agaist knig john,who had treated them harshly.They forced him to sighn an agreement ,so there would be equal treatment under the law,trial by one's peers,and it limited the power of the monarch. -
Mayflower compact
The pilgrims colonists needed rules to govern thmselves if the were to survive in a new land,s they drew up a written pan for govrnment. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Pilgrims were presecuted for their religos beliefs,they left Masschusetts an went to connecticut.They developed Amercan's first constitutioin,and they elected representatives.Popular elections of a government and a judge. -
Glorious revolution
it was knon as the peaceful transfer of power and in changed the government in england. From that time on,no ruler woukd have more power than parliament.They moved knig james the 2nd out of the throne and invited the daughter mary and her husband. -
English bill of rights
It restricted the monarechs power.It guaranteed free elections to parliament, the right to a fair trial,and the elemination of cruel and unusal punishments. -
John locke
Enlishwritter and philospher,who argued that people were bor free,equl,and independent.They possesed rights ,natural rights,to life,liberty,and property that no goverment could take away. -
Montesquieu
Developed the idea about dividing the branches of government into diffrent parts to balance eachother so that no one part can become too strong ot threaten individual rights. -
Rousseau
He argued that the people alone had the right to determine how they should be guarnteed.He wrote the social contract.
