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Gave people the right of "due process." Also started the basic idea of higher law or the rule of law.
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The Mayflower Compact had the idea and continued the idea of law made by the people. It was the idea of self-govenment.
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- No taxes can be made with consent of Parliment
- No person can be improsioned without a cause
- No soldiers can live with the citizens
- Martial law cant be used in time of peace
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- No goods grown or manufactured in Asia, Africa, or America can be imported unless in English vessels and the goods of any Euopean country can be brought by an English vessel or of the country making them.
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- Freedom of speech
- Freedom from cruel and unusual punishments
- Freedom from taxaction by royal prerogative
- Freedom to elect members of parliment
- Freedom from a standing army
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This prohibited American cononists from settling west of the Appalacins, but gave them some land in North America.
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- Establishd Britis courts fr tax violaters where there is a jugde.
- Regulates trade from different countrys
- Taxed more for forgeign goods
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- Taxed printing materials beig printed on stamped paper
- Helped pay for the troops
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- Elected people of all colonies except Georgia to make the king and Parliment understand the "grievances" of the colonies
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Other known as the intolerable act it took away Massachusetts self government and historical rights
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They were the same leaders from the first continental congress who managed the colonial war effort and moved towards independence
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This was a political protest to which colonists destroyed an entire shipment of tea and defied the tea act
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This marked the "outbreak of open armed conflict" between the king and the colonies
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Justified the right to revolt and the ideas of what the colonists believed. What all the events were leading up to