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Period: Sep 20, 1200 to
constitutional influences timeline
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Sep 20, 1215
Magna Carta
the king to sign an agreenment. right included equel treatment under the law and trial by one's peers . limited the power of the monarch ; guarantteet that no one would be above the law . -
Mayflower compact
AMERICA ( plymouth colonists) realized they needed rule to goven themselves in order to survive in a new land.
come up with written plan for government.
signed by one of the men. -
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT
AMERICA'S FIRST WRITTEN COSTITUTION
CALLED ASSEMBLY OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE AND THE POPULAR ELETION OF GOVERNED AND JUAGES -
glorius revoution
parliament removed king james ii and replaced him with his daughter mary.showed that parliament was know stronger than the king.
peaceful transfer of power
no ruler would have more power than partrament -
english bill of rights
further restricted the monarch's power
1.free elections to parlianment
2.right to a fair ,trial
3.elimiation of curt and unusanl punishments -
John Locke
Argued that people were born free , egual and indendent.
believed people possessed rights called natual right that n government could take away.
right included life , libeity and poperty . -
Baron e montesquieu
developed he idea known as separation of power .
dividing the government into barnches so that no one part can cecome too power or threaten individual right. -
Jean-jacques Rousseau
wrote the social contiact
argued people alone had right to decide how they should be governed
