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The Magna Carta was created so nobody would be above the law, not even the king or queen.
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The Mayflower Compact was created because the Pilgrims needed rules to govern themselves.
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first written constitution in America.
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The Glorious Revolution was a peaceful transfer of power.
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The English Bill of Rights restricted the monarch's power and guaranteed free elections to Parliament as well as elimination of cruel or unusual punishment.
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John Locke believed that all people possess natural rights, meaning born with rights that government can't take away, which is life, liberty, and property.
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Rosseau wrote "The Social Contract" aruging that people alone have the right to decide how they are governed.
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Montesquieu developed the idea of "seperation of powers" meaning to divide the fovernment into brances so that no one part can become too powerful than the others.
