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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
constitiutional timeline
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Sep 23, 1215
magna carta
limited the power of the king and protected certain rights for nobles ...Rule of law -
mayflower compact
pilgrims were a independent territory and they needed a goverment fast and they had no laws...self goverment.. -
english bill of rights
expanded the right of their parliment and the people to give them more rights to limited the king rights totrial ...limited goverment... -
john locke
"natural rights "
we are born with life-liberty-property...rights/limited goverment -
catos letters
arguments against the kings power freedom of epression ...rights. -
montesquieu
sepertion of powers divide goverment to keep one person/group from taking control...limited goverment. -
rousseau
rousseau beieved the purpose of the goverment is to protect liberty. Rousseau wrote a book called "the social contract"
and it talks about wha makes and effective goverment...rights... -
common sense
expanded the arguments for independence in a way that was easy for every day colonist to understand...rights.
