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The Purpose of the Magna Carta was to curb the King and make him govern by the old English Laws that had prevailed before the Normans Came.
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A Request to a police offical that seeks a correct, or a wrong, or to influence public policy. Right to be able to do things freely. Signed in June 1628 by King Charles I.
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A act of the Parliment of England. An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succesion of the crown.
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1754 propsal by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany congress.
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A riot in Boston , arising from the resentment of Boston colonists towards British troops.
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A raid on 3 Birtish ships in Boston Harbor where Boston colonists disguised themselves as Indians.
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Declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishman.
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Established militia as the continental army to represent the 13 states.
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A document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown. Signed on July 4, 1776, But drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11, and June 28 1776.
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Originaly binding document of the U.S and served as the Supreme Law of the land starting on March 1,1781.
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A revolt by desperate Massachusetts farmers in 1786, Shays's rebellion arose from the Economic hardship that followed the war of Independence.
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A plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house, and executive & judicial branches to be chosen by legislature.
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Unsuccessfully proposed at the constitutional convention providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
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A meeting held in 1787 which the U.S Constitution was signed and ratified.
