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Magna Carta
Also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England. Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. -
English Bill of Rights
Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689.It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement for regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. -
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Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. The Plan represented an early attempt to form a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes. -
Boston Massacre
Was an in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
First Continential Congress
It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. The Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being the Province of Georgia, which was hoping for British assistance with Indian problems on its frontier. -
Second Continential Congress
was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. Adopted the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declarartion of Independence
announced that the 13 American colonies. Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. An approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. -
Shay's Rebellion
an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion took place in a political climate where reform of the country's governing document, the Articles of Confederation, was widely seen as necessary. -
Philadelphia Convention
Also known as the Constitutional convention. Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
Virginia Plan
Also known as the Randolph Plan. The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature. -
New Jersey Plan
Also known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan. was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention -
Petition of Right
was a remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown. Section 1 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 allows claims for which a petition would previously have been demanded to be brought in the courts directly as against any other defendant.
