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Jan 1, 1100
Monarch
Rulers but noble families gained powers via land in exchange for loyalty, tax$, military support -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
Nobles forced King John to sign a sign a document
Limited power of monarch
Everyone would get equal treatment -
Jan 1, 1300
Parliament
Next king develops a group that represents common people -
House of Burgesses
1st representative assembly/legislature in English colonies -
Mayflower Compact
established direct democracy -
John Locke
English writer
People are born free & equal
Born with natural rights to life -
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
1st written constitution in America
assembly of elected reps from each town to make laws
popular election of governor & judges -
Massachusetts settles Body of Liberties
Pennsylvania Frame of Government & 1701 PA Charter of Privileges
establish basis of US constitution and Bill of Rights -
Glorious Revolution
Parliament removes King James the third & replaces him with his daughter Mary & her husband William -
English Bill of Rights
Guaranteed free elections to Parliament
Right to free trial
Eliminated cruel & unusual punishments -
Baron de Montesquieu
Divide branches of government into different parts to balance each other out so no one can become too strong -
13 English colonies established
each colony has a governor elected by the colonist or appointed by the king
each had a legislature with representatives elected by free adult males -
colonist are not feeling they had rights of native English people because of taxes & limitations placed
they had been self-sufficient, representative gov't for 100+ years.
Not turning back or stopping now - we'll have to fight for independence
1754 Albany Plan of Union - 1st discussion of colonies for union against the British gov't -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wrote The Social Contract
People alone have the right to determine how they should be governed -
Albany Plan of Union
1st discussion of colonies for union against the British gov't -
Proclamation
cant live on the land west of Appalachian mountains so as not to stir up the native Americans -
Stamp Act
tax on all paper goods -
Quartering Act
colonist must provide barracks & supplies to British troops -
day stamp Act repealed, established Declaratory Act
Parliament has the right to tax & make decisions for American colonies in all cases -
Townshend Act
Allowed British gov't customs officers to enter anywhere suspected of smuggling (because many colonist were doing this because of taxes & boycotting -
Enlightenment
Locke & Montesquieu were Enlightenment thinkers
Believed God had created a orderly universe