influences on the constitution

magna carta

Jun 15, 1215

peaceful transfer of power no ruler's like kings queens would have power over people

mayflower compact

Jan 11, 1620

pilgrims needed to govern

fundamental order of connectitcut

Aug 23, 1639

english bill of rights

Dec 27, 1684

fair trail dree elections

glorious reolution

Sep 19, 1688

the peaeful transfer of power ,no ruler would have more power than parliament

john locke

Oct 31, 1690

nobody above the law and belived everyone was born with evil in them

montesquieu

Dec 25, 1748

seperation of power is dividing government's power like today government branches

rousseau

Sep 19, 1762

wrote the social contract argued that people alone have rights