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Great Leader, and a big thing to them was the ten commandments.
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Special kind of agreement between people and God, influenced the formation of colonial governments and contributed to our constitutional structure.
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The second part of the Christian Bible, written originally in Greek and recording the life and teachings of Jesus and his earliest followers
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A guarantee of limited government. It protected people from unjust punishment by the government and from the levying of taxes without popular consent.
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The Pilgrims governed themselves by a written contract between themselves.
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The Constitution of Connecticut had a huge influence on the Founders of America. Considered by many to be the state's first constitution.
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Was the first bill of rights, put clear limits on monarchy. The American Bill of Rights was influenced by this.
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members of the upper chamber were the first sons of noble families, and inherited their position.
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Members of the lower chamber were elected and were often the younger sons of noble families or wealthy commoners.
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Rational laws developed by John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Voltaire to describe social behavior and applied their finding in support of human rights and liberal economic theories.
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A struggle between French and British over lands in what is now western Pennsylvania and Ohio led to the start of the war.
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Great Britain won the war in 1763 with British troops led by George Washington.
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Tax on legal documents.
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Courts of England since the Middle Ages.
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342 tea chest poured into the Boston Harbor.
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Relationship with Great Britain.
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Assumed powers of a central government.
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One of the most famous documents in world history.
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The original constitution of the U.S.
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We the People of the United States.