History

Constitutional Influences !?$@&%:;

By jordancravens
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    1. Nobles forced King John to sign an agreement for their rights.
    2. Fights included equal treatment uner the law and trial by one' peers.
    3. Limitied he power of the monarch which guarunteed that no one would be above the law.
  • Period: Feb 1, 1215 to

    Constitutiona Influences

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    1. Pilgrums (Plymouth Colonists) realized they needed rules to govern themselves in order to survive.
    2. Came up with a written plan for government.
    3. Signed by 41 men

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
    • America's first written costitution
    • Called for assembly of elected representatives and the popular election of governor and judges.

  • Glorious Revlution

    Glorious Revlution
    • Parliment removed King James II and replaced him with his daughter, Mary. -Showed that it was now stronger than the monarch
    • Peaceful transfer of power
    • No ruler would have moe power than Parliament.

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    1. Further restricted the monarch's power.
    2. Three guarunteed rights -Free elections to Parliament -Right to a fair trial -Elimination of cruel and unusual punishments

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    1. Argued that people were born free, equal, and indpendent.
    2. Believed people possessed rghts called natural rights that no governm could take away.
    3. Rights incuded life, liberty, and property

  • Baron de Montesuieu

    Baron de Montesuieu
    1. Developed the idea known as separaion of powers.
    2. Divding the government into parts so that no one part can become to strong or threaten individual rights.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • Wrote the Social Contract
    • Argued people alone had he right to decidehow they should be governed