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The Magna Carta is a grant of rights chalanging the English monarch's athority. It was a statement of mens natural rights.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first document of the plymouth colony to maintain order.
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The Enlightenment was a time period when people were starting to read and learn.The First printing press was made in the age of enlightenment.
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The State of nature is theories describing the condition of humanity.
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Two Treaties of Government is a book written by John Locke about his opinion of kings rights.The first treaty is about patriarcha or the monorchy and the second is about a mans natural rights.
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The English Bill of Rights is separating royalty and lawmaking.
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Montesquieu wrote The Spirit of Laws and spent about twenty years researching. There are many topics such as the law, polotics, sociology, anthopology, and more. This creats the separation of powers and is where the United States gets their three btranches.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract. The Social Contract has basicaly decided what is fair and what is not.
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The Continental Congress was all the delegates from the thirteen colonies came together to govern the United to govern the United States.
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Common Sense was a book written by Thomas Paine with an argument for the American colonists for freedom from the British.
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The articals of confederation are the rules to how the national government are supposed to work. It said that there should be a local government for every state.
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natural rights are the rights that all humans are said to hve no matter there culture or religion.
