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Limited the Kings powers by law and protected the people's privileges.
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The government's power devives from the consent of the governed and not from God.
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Contains restriction on non-Parliamentary taxation and imprisonment without cause.
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Every man is able to govern himself according to God's law. Solution to politican upheaval.
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First written constitution in British North America.
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Declares the rights and liberties of the subjects and the succession of the Crown.
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Developed by Benjamin Franklin it provided intercolonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies defense. It was rejected.
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Meant to trade ideas and inform one another of the political mood and it also worked to convince more citizens to be active in the conflict.
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A record of the colonies' grievances against the Crown. Individual liberty snd the government's fundamental responsibility to serve the people.
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First national constitution and had little to no central government. It did not give the national government the power to tax or to regulate trade. It was more concerned with prohibiting the government.
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Augest 1786- January 1787
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Governed the sale of government land to settlers. Also had the ideas of trial by jury, freedom of religion, and freedom from excessive punishment. It abolished slavery in the Northwest Territories.
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James Madison. Called for an entirely new government bases on checks and balances and the number of representatives for each state bases on population.
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Called for modifications to the articles, also equal representation for each state.
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Also known as the Great Compromise it blended the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan to have a bicomeral legislature and the Constitution: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Method of counting slaves to have a proportional representation in Congress.
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Writtem around the Constitution.
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The supreme law of the United States. It consists of the Bill of Rights.
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