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Magna Carta
Limited the Kings powers by law and protected the people's privileges. -
Mayflower Compact
The government's power devives from the consent of the governed and not from God. -
Petition of Rights
Contains restriction on non-Parliamentary taxation and imprisonment without cause. -
John Locke's Two Treatises on Government
Every man is able to govern himself according to God's law. Solution to politican upheaval. -
Funamental Orders of Connecticut
First written constitution in British North America. -
English Bill of Rights
Declares the rights and liberties of the subjects and the succession of the Crown. -
The Albany Plan
Developed by Benjamin Franklin it provided intercolonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies defense. It was rejected. -
Committes of Coooorrespondence
Meant to trade ideas and inform one another of the political mood and it also worked to convince more citizens to be active in the conflict. -
Declaration of Independence
A record of the colonies' grievances against the Crown. Individual liberty snd the government's fundamental responsibility to serve the people. -
Articles of Confederation
First national constitution and had little to no central government. It did not give the national government the power to tax or to regulate trade. It was more concerned with prohibiting the government. -
Shay's Rebellion
Augest 1786- January 1787
1,500 arned farmers from Massachusetts marched to Springfield to protest a number of unfair policies, both economic and political. -
Northwest Ordinance
Governed the sale of government land to settlers. Also had the ideas of trial by jury, freedom of religion, and freedom from excessive punishment. It abolished slavery in the Northwest Territories. -
Virginia Plan
James Madison. Called for an entirely new government bases on checks and balances and the number of representatives for each state bases on population. -
New Jersey Plan
Called for modifications to the articles, also equal representation for each state. -
Connecticut Compromise
Also known as the Great Compromise it blended the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan to have a bicomeral legislature and the Constitution: the House of Representatives and the Senate. -
Three - Fifths Compromise
Method of counting slaves to have a proportional representation in Congress. -
Great Fundamentals
Writtem around the Constitution. -
Constitution
The supreme law of the United States. It consists of the Bill of Rights. -
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