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The magna carta is a document the King John was forced to sign. He was forced to sign it because it reduced the power he held as the king of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliment.
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Based on two legislative chambers or branches
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the revolution against James II there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland
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The English Bill of Rights is an English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right
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Boston Party Party took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.Because Britain ruled so harshly and abused the colonists, when they were free they made a very weak government to be sure it would not be too strong and also abuse them.
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the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument
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no execucitve branch
no president
13/13 states had to aprrove to change articles
The Articles were very weak because
1. there was no President,
2. no court system
3. they could not draft and army
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Shays' Rebellion, the post-Revolutionary clash between New England farmers and merchants that tested the precarious institutions of the new republic, threatened to plunge the "disunited states" into a civil war.
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They were planning on fixing the constitution but they ended up jsut writing a new one.
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The great compromuise is when they combing the Virginia plan and the New Jersey Plan.
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Anti-federalists not want an army in peace times, wanted a bill of rights, and wanted the states to have more power.
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They needed more power to keep the country under control with the check and balance system so they passed this constiution.
