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The Magna Carta is a legal English Document that made King John to proclaim certain rights and respect legal procedures.
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Meaning "People of the Long House".The original representative Democracy drew inspiration from these people, as they practiced lifes liberty and happiness over 800 years ago.
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A book that effectively a vocab for philosophy for the English language by using versions of technical terms employed by greek and Latin authors. Thomas implied that without government, there would be a non ending fear and, as he said, "life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
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This document prohibited a standing army during time of peace. It also includes the gurantee to the rights of a fair trial, and freedom from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment. These were added to the United States Constitution.
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This document was first published anonymously. John was u nhappy with it, seeing it had too many errors and wanted to republish it to get the maximum understanding of it. In this book, it desribes that political power should be the thing that protects the people and make laws and the regulation of property. He also explains that power should be divided into branches, which is how our government is today.
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a book that basically states that government gets its authority by our willing consent, not from God. People were willing to give up as much power that was needed to promote their safety and well being.
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This is the document that gave the original 13 colonies freedom and independence from England.
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Met in Philadelphia, this is where the Constituion was drafted and signed by 38 delegates. Democracy is based on a majority rule basis, but if the Constitution was non existent then the disliked majority would lose freedoms and basic rights. The Constitution prevents this from happening. Even if you lose, you are still guranteed your rights like everyone else.
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Basically the adoption of the Constitution. Takes two years to fully ratify the constitution. In order to ratify it, nine of the thirteen colonies needed to approve.
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