Constitutioal Influnces

  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to

    Constitutional Timeline

  • Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Nobles rebelled against King John and they forced him to sign an agreement for equal treatment under the law and trial by one's peers. It limited the power of the monarch by garenteeing that one would be above the law.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    The pilgrims relized that they neded rules to govern themselves when they came off the mayflower
  • Fundamnal Orers of Connecticut

    Fundamnal Orers of Connecticut

    Pilgrims left massachuessetts and went to conneiticut and created america's first constitution. They electe representatives as a popular vote for the governer and judges.
  • Gloious Revoluion

    Gloious Revoluion

    The parliament peacefuly removed king james frme the throne and put his daughter and her husband incharge. sence then no king/queen is more powerful than the parlament.
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    Farther resticted the monarch's power.
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    He argued that people were free, equal, and idependent. He believed everyone has natural ights: life, liberty, and property
  • Baron de Montesquieu

    Baron de Montesquieu

    developed the idea of sepration of powers which divided the government into branches of equal power.
  • Jean-Jacques Roussau

    Jean-Jacques Roussau

    He wrote the "Social Contract" and believed that people alone had the right to determne how they should b governed.