Road to the Constitution

What document created in 1215 Ad established the rights listed below?

- Basic rights of citizens

- Rule of law

- Representative assemblies

• the Constitution

• Napoleonic Code

• the Communist Manifesto

• the Magna Carta

What did the Magna Carta do?

• Gave more power to the King
• Limited the power of the King
• Got rid of the Feudal System in England
• Gave more power to the Common People

What is the House of Burgesses?

• The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in the American colonies.

• The first group of elected representatives to leave the colonies.

• The first house that was built in Jamestown, Virginia.

What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

• it provided the basis for a self-governing colony
• it established the first representative assembly in America
• it extended voting rights to non-church members
• It established the idea of due process

First written Constitution

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

In 1620, the Mayflower Compact was created to promote ________________ within Plymouth.

• a representative assembly
• peace and harmony
• self-expression
• self-government

What influence did the Mayflower Compact have on the colonists views of government?

• people can form a new government

• created three separate branches of government

• enumerated rights of the colonists

• called for a written constitution

Why did Parliament eventually repeal the Stamp Act?

• the colonists established a blockade 
• The colonists started buying British goods.
• The colonists were able to produce their own goods
• The colonists began boycotting (refusing to buy) British goods

What was The other name for the Intolerable Act?

• Stamp act
• Coercive Act
• Sugar Act 
• Military Act

This taxed molasses

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act