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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Constitutional Influences Timeline
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
Noble forced king john to sign an agreemnet to equal treatment under law and trail by one's peers and limited power of the monarch and no one is above the law -
mayflower compact
The pymouth colonists realize they need rules t govern them sevlves in order to survive in a new land. They came up with a written plan for government and was signed by all men -
Fundamental orders of Connecticut
America's first written constitation called for assembly of elected repsentive and the poplular election of governor and judges -
Glorious Revolution
Parliament removed king james II and replaced him with his daughter mary. and showed that palliament was now stronger then monarch -
english bill of rights
this futher restricted the monarch's power and guaranteed 3 rights free elections to palliament,right to a fair trail and elimination of cruel and unusual punishments -
John Locke
argued that people were born free,equal and independent and people had natural rights that goverment could not take away rights included life,liberty and propety -
Baron de Montesquiei
Developed the idea known as branches of goverment into branches so that no one part can become too sstrong or threaten individual rights. -
jean-jacques rousseau
wrote the social contract argued people alone had rights to decide how they should be goverened
