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Jan 16, 1215
The Magna Carta
A group of determined barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta the great charter a runnymede. The Magna Carta included such fundemental rights as trial by jury due process of laws protection against the abitrary taking of life, liberty, or property. -
The Petition of Right
The petition of right limited the King's power in many ways he wasn't able to punish people or imprison them anymore. People has to listen to the law of the land. -
The English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights prohibitted a standing army in peacetime except with the consent of Parliament and required that all parliamentary elections to be free. The bill of Rights also included such guarantees as the right to a fair trial. -
The Albany Plan of Union
In the Albany Plan of Union Frankline proposed the formantion of an annual congress of delagates from each of the colonies. The body would have the powe to raise military and naval forces, make war and peace with the Native Americans, regulate trade with them, tax and collect custom duties. -
The Declaration of Independence
The declarations of Independence, proclaming the existence of the new nation. The Declaration announces the independence of the united States in its first Paragraphs. This document was created when the 13 colonies gained their indpedent and free states. -
The Articles of Confederation
The articles of confederation was a agreement among the first 13 states that established the UInited States as a confederation of soverign states and served s the first constitution. -
The Connecticut Compromise
Under the Connecticut Compromise it was agreed that Congress should be composed of two houses. The smaller one woul dbe the Senate, the States ouwld be represented equally. In theHouse the representation fo each State would be based upon its population.The connecticut compromise was so pivotal to the writing of the Consittuion that is has often been calle dthe Great Compromise. -
The Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan largely the work of Madison was presented by Randolph. The Viginia plan was called for a new government with three seperate branches the legislative, executive, and judicial. Under the proposed Virginia Plan, Congress would choose a ational Excutive and a National Judiciary. these two branches would for a Council of revision. They could veto acts passed by the Congress but the veto could be overridden by the two houses. -
The New Jersey Plan
The New Jersey plan retained the unicameral Congress of the Confederation, with each othe Sates equally represented. To those powers Congress already had, would be added closely limited powers to tax and to regulate trade between states. This plan was also called the Federal excutive, or more than one person. -
The Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the surpreme law of the United States. The constitution sets out the basic principles upon which the government in the UNites States wa sbuilt and operates today. The document lays outthe basic framework and procedures of our government and sets out the limits within which that government must conduct itself
