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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
this document protected the noble privilege and athority, or control.It also grante, or allowed, curtain rights to all landhlders and right apply to all English people. -
Mayflower Compact
They are known as the "Pilgram". They have arrivd at America o built a settlement called Plymouth hundred of mile i North Virginia.oday Plymouth is in Massachusetts, a poart of New England.When hey reach america they realied they need to setup a government.They begin to setup a government called "Direct Democracy". -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
They left Massachusetts and colonized the area that is now Connecticut. They developed the first Constitution-fundamental orders of Connecticut. This representative from each town to make laws. -
Glorious Revolution
They dethrone the king, this peaceful transfer of power, know as the glorious revolution, changed government in England from that time on, no ruler would have more power that Parliament. -
English Bill of Rigts
This document further restricted the monarch's power. It also guaranteed free election to Parliament, the right to fair trial, and he elimination of cruel and unusual punishments. -
John Locke
He was an English writer who supported the Glorious Revolution.Locke argued that people were born free,equal, and Independent.they also possessed the natural Right,life,liberty, and property that no government couldn't take away. -
Baron de Montesquieu
He developed an idea called the "separation of Power" which divide the branches into different parts to balance each other so that no one part become too strong or threaten Indivisual rights.His idea of separation of Power and Locke social contract and natural Right, become cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He wrote in "The Social Contract", published in 1762 , that "man in burn free, yet everywhere he is found in chains." Rousseau was referring to the large number of people in Europe living under oppressive governments. He argued that the people alon had the right to determine how they should be governed.
