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Document signed stating nobody would be able to be above the law, not even the King or Queen !
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Document signed because Pilgrims needed rules to govern themselves (:
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First written constitution in America cx
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- Peaceful transfer of power !
- No ruler would have more power then Parliement. (King or Queen)
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- Free elections
- Fair Trials
- No cruel or unusual punishment
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- Believed that all people posses natural rights that one born with government can't take away.
- Life, liberty, property !
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Developed idea of seperation of powers, dividing government into branches so that no part can become too powerful.
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- Wrote "The Social Contract".
- Argued that people alone have to decide how they are governed.
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