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1500 BCE
Moses
He divinely received the Ten Commandments, to apply the laws equally all people, even kings to a fair trail. -
600 BCE
Old Testament
It was a special agreement between people and God.having Natural Law. -
100
New Testament
Special kind of agreement between people and God influenced the formation of the Colonials Government. -
1215
The Magna Carta
English establish with oppressive policies of King John, unfair taxations and cruel treatment of prisoners -
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The Thirteen English Colonies
A group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of America. Three things were part of the colonial government which was followed by governors, legislative bodies, and a court system. -
Mayflower
Governed themselves by a written contract between themselves, a huge influence. -
The Constitution of Connecticut
The first constitution has written in American and had a huge influence on the Founders of America -
English Bill of Rights
Power struggles between the monarch and parliament persisted for more than 400 years. -
House of Lords
Upper chambers were the first sons of the noble families would attend glance of their inherited postions -
House of Common
The lower chamber would elect the younger son of a wealthy family or sons of a noble family. -
The Enlightenment
Intellectual movement contracted in France, in which concerned the idea of God, nature, and Humanity. -
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The French and Indian War
Colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. After the nine-year battle, Great Britain claimed victory -
The Stamp Act
King George became King of England in 1760, a new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
The English Common Law
Courts of England, the law derived from judicial decisions of the courts and similar tribunals. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of the colonist, dressed up as Mohawk Indians dumping over 342 chests full of British Tea. Symbolize they would pay that much for the price of tea. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on September 5.1774. The reason for the congress to discuss the relationship with Great Britain. -
The Second Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence
Founded on Principles of human liberty and consent of the Government, Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776 -
The Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin led the committee to draft of Articles of Confederation, an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification. -
The Constitution of the United States
Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
