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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Constitutional Influences
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
This document, or deed, protected the nobles' privileges and authority or control it also granted or allowed, certain rights to landholders. THAT NO ONE WAS ABOVE THE LAW!!! -
Mayflower compact
pilgrims realized they needed rules to govern themselves. They drew up a written plan for government. -
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
Pilgrims left for Massachusetts they developed America's FIRST written Constitution. -
Glorious Revolution
Peaceful tranfer of power and a change in government in England. Parliament REMOVED King James II from the throne and invited his daughter Mary. -
English Bill of Rights
Free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, and the elimination of cruel and unusual Punishments. -
John Locke
John Locke thought people wee born free, equal, and independent also possessed right to Life, Liberty, and Property that no government can take away. -
Baron de Montesquieu
Montesquieu Thought that the government needed different part to balane so that the goverment wont have to much power. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau argued that the people alone has the to determine how they should be governed.
