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ten commandments
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special kinds of agreement between people and god.
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it contributed to the way that future constitutions would be written
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it opposed policies that included unfair taxation and cruel treatment to prisoners
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this was a written contract between themselves
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the first constitution written in America
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this existed for more than 400 years!
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this was the upper chambers where the first sons of noble families would discuss
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the members of the lower chamber were elected and were often the younger sons of noble families or wealthy commoners
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An intellectual movement that developed rational laws
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British believed that all colonist owned allegiance to the monarch
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A war between the French and Indian that was fought in western Pennsylvania and Ohio
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when the British taxed on common goods at overpriced deals
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courts of England since the middle ages
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when colonist dressed up as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston harbor
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every colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia to discuss congress
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they immediately assumed powers of the central government
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a document that the 13 colonies signed in order to declare independence from Britain
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this did not go immediately is had to be approved by the 13 colonies
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When the founding fathers got together to make a declaration for us
