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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The way this influenced the Constitution was that the colonists were upset that the Tea Party dumped all of the Tea into the water and as a result the Intolerable Acts was made. -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of Rights drafted in 1776, by George Mason, for the state constitution of Virginia. Which influenced both Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. And it says that rights are the basis and foundation of government. -
Common Sense Thomas Paine
This influenced the Constitution because it was written to show that the efforts at independence was the only real solution for the colonies. So he wrote Common Sense to illustrate the need for independence which was 55 pages. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, which officially broke all political ties between the American colonies and Great Britain, caused the ideas and principles behind a just and fair government, and the Constitution outlined how this government would function. -
Shays Rebellion
The uprising was one of the major influences in the calling of a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The tax protest showed the federal government, under the Articles of Confederation, couldn't put down an internal rebellion. -
Failing Government
On September 25, 1789, after several months of debate, the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution–the Bill of Rights–and sent them to the states for ratification.