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Jan 1, 1100
Monarchs Rule 1100s-1200s
Nobles can gain power via land in exchange for loyalty, tax money, and military support. -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
Limited power of monarch
Everyone would get equal treatment under the law
Trial by one's peers -
Jan 1, 1300
Parliament is Developed 1300s
Group that represents common people.
What we are based in today -
English Colonies America (1600s-1700s)
-Accept common law
-no ruler is above the law
- should have basic rights protected
- should have a voice in government -
House of Burgesses (Virginia)
-1st representatives assembly/legislature in English colonies -
Mayflower Compact
Established direct democracy -
John Locke (1632-1704)
English writer
Liked protection of natural rights
Government must maintain social contract
His ideas were cornerstones of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
-1st written Constitution in American
-assembly of elected reps from each town to make laws
-popular election of governor and judges -
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Individual rights protection
Establish basis of US Constitution and Bill of Rights -
Pennsylvania Frame of Government
Establish basis of Constitution and Bill of Rights -
Glorious Revolution
When Parliament removes King John III from office and replaces him with daughter Mary and husband William.
From this time on, no ruler would have more power than Parliament -
English Bill of Rights
Further restricted power of monarch's power
Guaranteed free elections to Parliament
Right to fair trial
Eliminated cruel and unusual punishments -
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
-divide branches of government into different *parts to balance each other out so no one can become too strong
-his ideas are cornerstones of the Declaration of Independence -
Enlightenment
-Locke and Montesquieu were Enlightenment thinkers
-believed God has created an orderly universe
-the laws of the universe can be discovered through the use of human reason
-laws that governed nature also applied to human life and society -
Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges
Establish basis of US Constitution and Bill of Rights -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
-wrote the social contract
-people alone have the right to determine how they should be governed -
Mid 1700s 13 English Colonies Establish
- each colony has a governor elected by the colonists or appointed by the king -each had a legislature with Representatives elected by free adult males
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Mid 1700s colonists aren't feeling they have the rights of native English people because of taxes and limitations placed
-they had been self-sufficent, representative gov't for 100+ years not turning back or stopping now-we'll have to fight for independence -
Albany Plan of Union
-1st discussion of colonies for Union against British government -
Proclamation of 1763
Can't live on land west of Appalachian mountains so as not to stir up Native Americans -
Stamp Act
Tax on all paper goods -
1765 Quartering Act
Colonists must produce barracks and supplies to British troops -
1766 Day Stamp Act repealed established Declaratory Act
Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for American colonies in all cases. -
1767 Townshend Act
Allowed Brit govt officers to enter anywhere -
1770 Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
Throw tea in water -
1774 PA First Cont. Cong
Write to King George III-we demand you restore our rights has Brit. citizens -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
1st Battle of American Revolution -
2nd Continental Congress Meets
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Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense
Published-moved many undecided colonists towards the belief that independence was their only source of action -
Declaration of Independence Written
List of complaints against king
Beliefs about individual rights
Pulled ideas from Locke and Monstesquieu
