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The Magna Carta was a charter signed that limited the powers of the English king & guarenteed certain fundamental rights. The Barons are the one that had come up with it.
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Major English constitution document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing
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Prohibited a standing army in peacetime, execpt with the consent of Parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free. Also included suck guarantees as the right to a fair trail, as well as freedom from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment.
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Was a proposal to create unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress.
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The killing of 5 colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since royal troops.
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In 1771, a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on spetember 5 to October17, 1774 at Carpenters Hall.
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A conventional of delegates from the thirteen colonies that sharted meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon agter warfare in the American Revolutionary war had begun.
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Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people.
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This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect.
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An armed uprising that took placie in Massachusetts durin g1786 and 1787 which some historians believe fundamentally altered the course of the United States history.
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The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
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delegates that were prffessional men, with ober half of them lawyers and as such they carried an aura of wealth and power.
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Proposal for the structure of the Untied States Government presented by William Patterson at the Constitutional Convention.
