The Timeline of American Government

By leanna254
  • 1500 BCE

    Moses

    Ten commandments
  • 600 BCE

    Old Testament

    agreement between people and God.
  • 100

    New Testament

    covenant
  • 1215

    The Magna Carta

    People recognizing their rights. Unfair taxation and cruel treatment. Limited government

  • The Mayflower Compact

    Influence on government and constitution.

  • Constitution of Connecticut

    Influence on Founding Fathers of America

  • English Bill of Rights

    Power of struggles. Monarch and Parliament

  • House of Lords

    Upper chamber. The U.S senate is the upper chamber in the American Congress.

  • House of Common

    Lower Chamber. The U.S Representative is the lower chamber

  • Enlightment

    Intellectual

  • English Common Law

    Social Contract. Servant Leadership from the bible. Thomas Hobbes was an English Political Philosopher.

  • 13 English Colonies

    Representative government. Republicanism and Constitutionalism.