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The great charter of the liberties. It was first drafted by the Archbishop to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons.
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First settlement of the Virgina colony. Govener George Yeardley gave notice immediately that the Virgina colony would establish legislative assembly. The assmbly was called the house of burgesses.
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First governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by separist congergationalists who called themselves "saints". Later on known as Pilgrams fleeing from religious persecutions by King James.
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Major English constitutional document that set specific liberties of the subject to the king prohibited from infringing.
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Act of the Parilment of England that deals with constitutional matters and lays out certian basic civil rights.
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purposal to create unified government for the 13 colonies suggested by Ben franklin.
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Recongized as the first organized and coornadited political actions of the American Revolution even though its participants were not all interested, in the independence from Britian.
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It was metting between the delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that met on SEptember 5 to October 25 1774 in Philadelphia. It was a respone to the passage of Coercive Acts.
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A convention of delegates from the 13 coloines that started a meeting in the summer of 1775 in Philadelphia soon after welfare in the American Revolutionary war had begun.