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limited the rule of the king
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English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament.
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was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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It was tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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To protest British Parliament's unfair tax on tea. "No taxation without representation"
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was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies which called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" by the British Parliament.
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in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress
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announced that the thirteen American colonies,regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
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was a document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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establishing the rules--including complete secrecy concerning its deliberations--that would guide the proceedings.
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proposed a legislative branch consisting of two chambers (bicameral legislature), with the dual principles of rotation in office and recall applied to the lower house of the national legislature
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an armed uprising against Masschusetts. Started by Daniel Shay
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was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government
