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Ancient Greece (5th Centrey BC)
Direct Demorocy. This influenced Americas government by how we elect leaders for our government. We have Representitives voted from the public to then vote for the leaders. -
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Acient Rome (509 BC - 49BC)
Indirect Democrocy. Influenced the American Governmnt because they have representivites represent for them and help make new laws. -
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magna carta
Great charter of the liberties of England, is an Angevin charter originally issued in latin. -
Mayflower Compact
A document signed by GB letting settelers settle on land given to them by GB. -
Thomas Hobbes
in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy -
English Bill of Rights
declaring and finalizing the rights of the people -
John locke
was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism" -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought -
Baron de Montesquieu
Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment -
Voltaire
known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, -
Cesare Beccaria
an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher and politician best known for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemned torture and the death penalty -
First Constitutial Congress
Group of officals that meet in Pensulvania during the revolutionay war. -
Secound Continental Congress
Group of delegates from the thirteen colonies stated to meet in the summer of 1775 in philidalphia, pensulvania, started soon after the warfare in the American Revolutionary war had begun. -
Decleration Of Independence
Was made for the independence from GB after the revolutionary war -
articals of confederation
Was the origianal constitution but had flaws that made it get ratified in 1781 which then got replaced by the US constitution in 1789 -
Treaty of Paris
Signed by representitives from GB and the United States of America to finaly end the American Revolutionary war. -
Shay's Rebelion
An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system -
Philadelphia Convention
The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787; all states were invited to send delegates. The convention, meeting in Philadelphia, designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
