Steps to the Constitution

By mi_amoore
  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to

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  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    The nobls rose up and rebeled against King John and forced him to sing document called the "Magna Carta" which gave the people more rights such as equal treatment under under the law.

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    The Mayflower Compact is a written plan for government and it established a tradtion of direct democracy. The Plymouth colonist made this because they knew that they would need rules to gorvern themselves if they survived the new land.

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
    Pilgrims being persecuted for their religious beliefs left Massachusetts and moved into what is now Connecticut where they mde America's first written constitution called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. This document made it where a group of representives from each town would come and meet up and they would make laws.

  • Glorious Revoluton

    Glorious Revoluton
    The Parliment threw King James from the throne an invite his daughter Mary and her husband to rein as king and queen. By doing this, the Parliment showed that no monarch could over rule the them and changed the gorverment in England from that day on.

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    The Parliment made this document that restricted the monarch's power even more and is also guaranteed free elctions to the Parliment, the right to a fair trial, and the elimination of nusual punishment.

  • John Locke's Argument

    John Locke's Argument
    Locke argued that all people had natural rights and that all people should have liberty, life and property no governemnt should be able to take away.

  • Baron de Montequieu's Argument

    Baron de Montequieu's Argument
    Montequieu was a French writer that made the idea of seperation of powers. Separation of powers is th idea of dividing the government into three branches to balance each other so that niether branch has more power than the other or threaten individual rights.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Argument

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Argument
    Rousseau was a french philosopher that wrote that "man is born free, yet everywhere he is found in chains" in The Social Contract. He argued that pople had the right to determine how they should be governed.