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- Magna Carta was the result of the Angevin king's disastrous foreign policy and overzealous financial administration.
- Heirs shall be married without disparagement, yet so that before the marriage takes place the nearest in blood to that heir shall have notice.
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- A statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I.
- Arbitrary arrest and imprisonment for opposing these policies had produced in Parliament a violent hostility to Charles and George Villiers.
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- By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of parliament.
- By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates, for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power.
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- Aware of the strains that war would put on the colonies, English officials suggested a union between Royal, Proprietary & Charter Governments.
- Franklin anticipated many of the problems that would ruin the government, created after independence, such as finance, dealing with the Indian tribes, control of commerce, and defense.
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- The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
- Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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- The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
- A related objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies.
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- All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
- These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.
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- The delegates of the 13 colonies gathered in Philadelphia to discuss their next steps.
- There were several new delegates including: John Hancock from Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania.
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- Drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
- He expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people.
- The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and continental philosophers.
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- A crucial period in our nation's founding when the survival of the republican experiment in government was neither destined nor assured.
- Shays' Rebellion had a great influence on public opinion.
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- Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.
- The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention.
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- Drafted by James Madison, and presented by Edmund Randolph to the Constitutional Convention.
- Proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
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- Founded 2 weeks after the virginia plan.
- Patterson's ideas amounted to no more than a simple reshaping of the Articles of Confederation.
