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Magna Carta
Protected our rights of the barons -
Thomas Hobbes
Died on December 4, 1697, Prominent English Philosopher, is book "Leviathan" marked the foundation for numerous Western political philosophies taking in account the perspective of social contact theory. -
Mayflower Compact
The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony written by the Separatists, and was signed aboard a ship by most adult men. -
Petition of Rights
Expressed many of the ideas that lead to the American Revolution -
John Locke
Died January 1, 1704, was widely considered to be one of the greatest English philosopher and a leading figure in the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. -
English Bill of Rigts
A British law that declared the rights and liberties of people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James II was deposed. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Died July 2, 1778. The most enigmatic of all the philosophes of the 18th century Enlightenment, the political philosopher, educationist and essayist. -
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards, 1730, a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. -
First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies, except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament’s Coercive Acts. -
Second Continental Congress
On May 10, 1775, Congress reconvened in Philadelphia as the Second Continental Congress, as promised. -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Unanimously adopted in 1776, Introduced by George Mason at the Virginia Convention in the Capitol in Williamsburg. -
Articles of Confederation of 1871
Represented an attempt to balance the sovereignty of the states with an effective national government. It didn't establish a genuinely republican government. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Enlightenment
1992, Lewis Hackett, the wide-ranging intellectual movement, claimed the allegiance of a majority of thinkers during the 17th and 18th centuries.