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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Common Law
The gathering of legal opinions of judges decisions provide guidelines or precedents for later judgment. This provided the foundation of American legal system. -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta Signed
The Magna Carta was a charter that parliament forced King John to sign giving the english people rights. it is shown in the Constitution be limiting the pwers of the government. -
Jan 1, 1265
Parliament Established
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Iroquois Confederation
Five original nations bounding together by mutual peace and friendship. The founding nations were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca Nations,and with Tuscarora Nation joining later. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
separation of Powers
The division of powers among different branches of goverment. -
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Colonial legislatures
The colonial legislatures had a great deal of power including the ability to muster troops, levy taxes and pass laws -
Mayflower Compact Signed
This was drawn up by governor William Bradford on the Mayflower. It made peace among the colonists on the ship. -
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Written Constitutions
laws that a set of people have made and agreed for government that enumerates, limits the powers, functions of a political entity and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. -
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New England Confederation Approved
Political and military alliance of the English colonies Its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Native Americans. This provided a basis for the further collaboration of Colonies in the American Revolution. -
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. -
English bill of Rights Established
it limited the power of the monarch by placing the dominant power of government in Parliament and provided for the security of the church of England agianst any attempt at counter-revolution. -
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John Locke - Two Treatise of Government
He wrote an eassy the contained: The first treatise attacks the patriarchalism in the form of sentence by sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha. The second treatise outlines a theory of political based on natural rights and contract theory. -
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Enlightenment
The celebration of human reason and sought to realize its potential in all areas of human endeavor. Some of the American founders belong to the age of englightenment. They believed in the powers of reason and observation to understand the workings of governamental and societal institutions. -
Adopted Albany Plan of Union
This was a developed union after the power struggle between France and England over the colonies. The union resided between the colonies. -
Baron De Montesque - One The Spirit of Laws
This book was about how seperation of powers keeps anyone from having too much control of the government. -
Jean Jacque Rousseau - The Social Contract
The Social Contract was used in the Declaration of Independence as a sign of enforcing Democracy. It is an agreement by the governed on a set of rules by which they are governed. -
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Sir John blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England
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Frist Continental Congress Meets
Was held in Philadelphia and was to talk about boycotting British trade. -
Second Continental Congress Meets
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Declaration of Independence Signed
A statement that annouces that the thirteen American colonies which were at war with Great Britain were now independent states and then no longer a part of the British Empire. -
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Articles of Confederation
This was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. -
Constitutional Convention Meets
The convention helped the U.S make money since they were bankrupt. New powers were granted to Congress to regulate the economy, currency, and the national defense. -
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Ratification of The Constitution
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Bill of Rights
Limiting the power of United States Federal government. Protecting the natural rights of personal and intellectual liberty and of property
