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This system had the idea that everyone could participate in the government.
The purpose of the government was to protect people's rights. Citizens would vote on how to run the city. Government officials were chosen randomly, by a lottery system because they thought every citizen should hold office and also juries were chosen randomly. -
Even thought it was not a true "representative democracy" because not all of it's important officials were elected; citizens were allowed to vote for some of the representatives, and if these didn't please the people, they could be voted out and replaced.
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He was an English philosopher that helped to form the way we see individual rights today.
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Similar to the Founding Fathers federal system, the Iroquois divided powers.
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It has a very important line which said that the king was no longer allowed to do whatever he wanted. The Magna Carta set the stage for the idea that even governments should be accountable to the law.
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This asked for a settlement of Parliament's complaints against the King's non-parliamentary taxation and imprisonments without trial, plus the unlawfulness of martial law and forced billets.
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He wrote that power should be divided into branches, an idea which; later on was an influence for our Founding Fathers when designing our government system.
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Thomas influenced the American Revolution, and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence.
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The bill of rights follows the idea of individual rights, that every person has a claim or privilege to have for themselves. This document was later on attached to end of the Constitution.