Constitutional Influences Timeline

By Shatyra_W
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Document signed stating nobody would be able to be above the law, not even the King or Queen !

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    Document signed because Pilgrims needed rules to govern themselves (:

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
    First written constitution in America cx

  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution
    • Peaceful transfer of power !
    • No ruler would have more power then Parliement. (King or Queen)

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    1. Free elections
    2. Fair Trials
    3. No cruel or unusual punishment

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    • Believed that all people posses natural rights that one born with government can't take away.
    • Life, liberty, property !

  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu
    Developed idea of seperation of powers, dividing government into branches so that no part can become too powerful.

  • Rousseau

    Rousseau
    • Wrote "The Social Contract".
    • Argued that people alone have to decide how they are governed.