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The document, essentially a peace treaty between John and his barons, guaranteed that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges
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a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing
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a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan (Albany Plan of Union) for unifying the colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars
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angered Americans over took a britsh tea ship and threw over all the tea on board
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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 document permantly seperating the United states of America from the british government
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was a article stating the confederation of the 13 colonies from the british governemnt
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an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts
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The main business of the Convention began four days later when Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented and defended a plan for new structure of government
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Written primarily by fellow Virginian James Madison, the plan traced the broad outlines of what would become the U.S. Constitution:
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The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State or Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention