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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Constitutional Influences Tmeline
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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
This document was written by the nobles. The doument proected the Nobles' privileges and authority,or control. After time i also granted rights to all land holders, which eventually came to apply to all englis people. -
Mayflower Compact
This document was written by the pilgrims. This document was a plan written for our first government. Fourty one men signed this document on board of the ship. It showed how people can vote on their government. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This was written by the pilgrims. This was written when the pilgrims were being prosecuted by their beliefs. So they left Massachusetts to colonize Connecticut. They developed America's first written constitution. -
Glorious Revolution
This is when parliament removed Kig James the second from the throne and invited his daughter to the throne. This was considered as a peaceful transfer. This showed that no one ruler(the president in our case) will have more power than parliament(Congress in our case). -
Engish Bill of Rights
The English Billor Rights was written by parliament. This document restriced the monarch's power even more than what it was before. It also guaranteed free electionsto parliament(in our ase it is congress), the right to a fir trial, and the elimination or ruel and unusual punishment -
John Locke
He supported the Gkorious Revolution. He came up with the idea that people were born free, equal, and independent. He also believed that people had 'Natural Rights'. These rights basically stated that people had equal rights to life, liberty, and property that nobody could take away. Which ended up becoming the social contract. -
Baron de Montesquieu
He developed he idea of dividing goverment in to equal branches so that no one par of government can become more powerful withoot the others not becoming powerful either.This also came up with not lettingone branch threaten individual rghts. This and the Social Contract beame the corner stones of the Declaration of Independence and he U.S. Constitution. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He wrote the Social Contract. He argued that people alone had the right to determine how they should be governed.
