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Nobody would be avove the law. Not even the king or queen.
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Pilgrims needed rules to govern themselves
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First written constution in America
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Peaceful transger of power. No ruler would have more power than the parliament
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- free elections
- fair trials
- no cruel or unusual punishment
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Believed that all people possess natural rights that we are born with and government cant take away.
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Developed idea of seperation of powers, dividing government into branches so that no one can become too powerful
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wrote "Social Contract" argued that people alone have rights to decide how they're governed.
