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timeline
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Nobles rebelled against King John, who treated everyone harshly. The nobles forced the King to sign an agreement called the Magna Carta.
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The Plymouth colonists made rules to govern themselves if they were to survive in a newland. Forty-one of the men abroad signed the Mayflower Compact.
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Developed America's first written constitution- the Fundamental Order of Connecticut.
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Transfer of power. This revolution changed goverment in England.
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To clarify the relationship, the Parliment drew up the English Bill of Rights.
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Locke argued that people were born free, equal, and independent.
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Developed the idea about dividing the branches of goverment into different parts to balance each other so that no one part can become too strong or threaten individual rights.
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Wrote in The Social Contract. He wrote that "man is born free, yet everywhere he is fournd in chains."
