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The gathering of legal opinions of judges decisions provide guidelines or precedents for later judgment. This provided the foundation of American legal system.
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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.
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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.
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The division of powers among different branches of goverment.
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The colonial legislatures had a great deal of power including the ability to muster troops, levy taxes and pass laws
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This was drawn up by governor William Bradford on the Mayflower. It made peace among the colonists on the ship.
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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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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.
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established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
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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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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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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.
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This was a developed union after the power struggle between France and England over the colonies. The union resided between the colonies.
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This book was about how seperation of powers keeps anyone from having too much control of the government.
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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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Was held in Philadelphia and was to talk about boycotting British trade.
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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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This was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate.
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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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Limiting the power of United States Federal government. Protecting the natural rights of personal and intellectual liberty and of property
