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Nobles can gain power via land in exchange for loyalty, tax money, and military support.
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Limited power of monarch
Everyone would get equal treatment under the law
Trial by one's peers -
Group that represents common people.
What we are based in today -
-Accept common law
-no ruler is above the law
- should have basic rights protected
- should have a voice in government -
-1st representatives assembly/legislature in English colonies
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Established direct democracy
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English writer
Liked protection of natural rights
Government must maintain social contract
His ideas were cornerstones of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution -
-1st written Constitution in American
-assembly of elected reps from each town to make laws
-popular election of governor and judges -
Individual rights protection
Establish basis of US Constitution and Bill of Rights -
Establish basis of Constitution and Bill of Rights
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When Parliament removes King John III from office and replaces him with daughter Mary and husband William.
From this time on, no ruler would have more power than Parliament -
Further restricted power of monarch's power
Guaranteed free elections to Parliament
Right to fair trial
Eliminated cruel and unusual punishments -
-divide branches of government into different *parts to balance each other out so no one can become too strong
-his ideas are cornerstones of the Declaration of Independence -
-Locke and Montesquieu were Enlightenment thinkers
-believed God has created an orderly universe
-the laws of the universe can be discovered through the use of human reason
-laws that governed nature also applied to human life and society -
Establish basis of US Constitution and Bill of Rights
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-wrote the social contract
-people alone have the right to determine how they should be governed -
- each colony has a governor elected by the colonists or appointed by the king -each had a legislature with Representatives elected by free adult males
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-they had been self-sufficent, representative gov't for 100+ years not turning back or stopping now-we'll have to fight for independence
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-1st discussion of colonies for Union against British government
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Can't live on land west of Appalachian mountains so as not to stir up Native Americans
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Tax on all paper goods
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Colonists must produce barracks and supplies to British troops
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Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for American colonies in all cases.
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Allowed Brit govt officers to enter anywhere
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Throw tea in water
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Write to King George III-we demand you restore our rights has Brit. citizens
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1st Battle of American Revolution
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Published-moved many undecided colonists towards the belief that independence was their only source of action
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List of complaints against king
Beliefs about individual rights
Pulled ideas from Locke and Monstesquieu
