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Constitutional Influences

  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to

    Constitutional Influences

  • Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    This document, or deed, protected the nobles' privileges and authority or control it also granted or allowed, certain rights to landholders. THAT NO ONE WAS ABOVE THE LAW!!!
  • Mayflower compact

    Mayflower compact

    pilgrims realized they needed rules to govern themselves. They drew up a written plan for government.
  • Fundamental Order of Connecticut

    Fundamental Order of Connecticut

    Pilgrims left for Massachusetts they developed America's FIRST written Constitution.
  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution

    Peaceful tranfer of power and a change in government in England. Parliament REMOVED King James II from the throne and invited his daughter Mary.
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    Free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, and the elimination of cruel and unusual Punishments.
  • John Locke

    John Locke

    John Locke thought people wee born free, equal, and independent also possessed right to Life, Liberty, and Property that no government can take away.
  • Baron de Montesquieu

    Baron de Montesquieu

    Montesquieu Thought that the government needed different part to balane so that the goverment wont have to much power.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Rousseau argued that the people alone has the to determine how they should be governed.