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The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215 between the barons of Medieval England and King John. The Magna Carta was one of the most important documents of Medieval England
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The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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The English Bill of Rights is an English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right. The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania.
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A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties.
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. Soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The American government created, signed, and showed a document which stated their independence from Great Britain. This was the Declaration of Independence.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States on November 15, 1777. Ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.
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A series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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Each state appointed delegates to attend a meeting in Philadelphia to develop a more effective and unified constitution. In total, 55 delegates from 12 states were present when the Philadelphia Convention began in May of 1787.
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a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787
