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In england the monarch ru;ed nut nobel families gained powere via land in exchange for loyalty, tax money, and military support.
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nobels force King John who was treating them terribly, to sign the Magna Carta which says that no one is about the law.
-everyone will get eqal treatment under the law.
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Next king develops a group that represents common people - Parliment
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-accept common law
-no ruler is above the law
-should have basic rights protected
-should have a voice in government -
Locke and Montesuieu were enlightenment thinkers
-believed God had created an orderly universe
-the laws of the universe could be discovered through the use of human reason
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-1st representative assembly/legislature in ENgland colobies
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-established direct democracy
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English writer
-people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property that no government could take away freedome.
-born free and independent
-governemnt must maintain social contract
-people give up part of their freedom in exchange for protection of natural rights. -
-1st written constitution in America
-assembly of elected representatives from each town to make laws. -
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Glorious Revolution- Parliment removes King James the Third and replaces him with his daughter Mary and her husband William
-from this time on, no ruler would have more power than Parliment. -
-further restiction of monarchs power
-quarrenteed free elections to Parliment
-right to free trial
-eliminated cruel and unusual punishment -
-divide branches og government into different parts to balance each other out so no one can become to strong.
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-establish basis of US Constitution and bill of rights
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-wrote the social contract.
-people alone have the right to determine how they should be governed -
Colonists not feeling that have the right of native English people because of taxes and limitations passed. They had been self sufficient representative government for 100 + years. Not turning back or stopping now we'll have to fight for independence
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1st discussion of colonies for union against British government.
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-each colony has a government elected by the colonists or appointed by the king
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Can't live on the land west of the Appalachian mountains so as not to stir up the native americans
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Tax on all paper goods
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Colonists must provide barracks and supplies to British troops
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Establishing declaratory act- parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for American colonies in all cases
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Allowed British government customs officers to enter anywhere suspected of smuggling (because many colonists were doing this because of taxes and boycotting
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British could ship tea to the colonies without a tax, making it cheaper to buy than colonial tea
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Write to king George 3- we demand you restore our rights as British citizens
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1st battle of American revolution
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Meets
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Published moved many undecided colonists toward the belief that independence was the only course of action
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-list of complaints against king
-beliefs about independent rights
-pulled from ideas of Locke and Montesquieu