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Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was the first written document presented to King John of England by his subjects intended to restrict his power and protect their rights. Not only did the Magna Carta become a "springboard" for Jefferson's revolutionary Declaration of Independence, the concepts of LAW as supreme { above even kings or legislative bodies } were drafted into the United States Constitution by James Monroe. -
Mayflower Compact
" Mayflower Compact is an agreement reached by the pilgrams on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws". Making colony independent of english law. That is why historians feel that the mayflower compact influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence. -
John Locke's book "Two Treatises of Government"
Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. Related words for the theory of this book is natural law and social contract. His idea of the social contract and the idea of deriving their power from the consent of governed were both revolutionary concepts in 1776 that made their way into the declaration of independence and the constitution. -
English Bill of Right
The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British law, passed by parliament in Great Britain in 1689. It had a massive influence on the colonies in North America. It established a constitutional monarchy in Great Britain. The declaration of independence had a profound effect upon the bill of rights and the constitution. The declaration of independence, it seems, may have ignited the fire under which the bill of rights and the constitution were written. -
Sugar Act
"On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the SUGAR and Molasses Act {1733}, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the important of foreign molasses". This act set expensive taxes on sugar. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act was the act which forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses. There is no doubt that taxation without proper representation set the stage for the
declaration of independence. -
The Stamp Act
In 1765 Britain passed the stamp act which forced the colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, as well as, newspaper, calenders, almanacs. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. The townshend act also took many of the important rights. The townshend act took away the rights of New York to have its own government. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a incident on King Street by the British, it took place in March 5, 1770, in which British army soldier killed the colonists. -
Boston Teaparty
The Boston Teaparty was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston, on Dec 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. And this was happening because they want a representative democracy. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4,1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies , then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent soverign states. And this work to declare the independence, to give people rights with which they are born with, equality, pursuit of happiness, liberty. -
Baron De Montesquieu's book "Spirit of Laws"
The Spirit of Laws is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1784 with the help of Claudine Guerin de Tencin. Related vocab is seperation of powers. The founding fathers were heavily influenced by Baron de Montesquieu when drafting the Constitution, most notably in the connection with the separation of powers.
