U.S. Gov Infuences
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Justice 1000bce
people should seek to create a just society based on respect for the law
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Direct Democracy 700bce
decision making by all citizens
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Representative Government 300bce
decision making by officials elected from the citizenry
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Equality in the eyes of God 100bce
everyone is equal
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Rule of Law 700
nobody is above the law
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Limited Gov. 1300
kings power was not absolute
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Individual rights 1700
rights that are required and cannot be changed
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Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
social contract theory
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John Locke 1632 - 1704
democratic Government
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Baron de Montesguieu
seperation of powers in democracy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
wrote the social contract and if the gov broke it should be dissolved
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Mayflower Compact 1620
settlers agreed to live in a city body politic
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New Englands First Code of Laws 1641
gaurenteed certain basic rights to the colonists
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1765 Stamp Act
tax levied by parliament on all paper goods in the colonies
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1767 Townshend Acts
place duties on goods imported into the colonies, colonies boycotted all british goods
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1770 Boston Massacre
british soldiers kill five people which sparks further protests
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1773-1774 Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Act
Britain imposed Intolerable Acts on the colonies for protesting
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1775 Fighting Begins
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Milita and British soldiers fight and the American Revolution begins
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1776 Declaration of Independance
Continental Congress declares the colonies free
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June 1776 Declaration of Independance Comittes formed
congress formed a comitee made up of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benj, Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to form the declaration of independance
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July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independance
Members of congress approve the Declaration of Independance
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1781 British Surrender
in Yorktown, Virginia the british surrendered to America
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May 25,1787
Constitutional Convention began to draft state constitutions
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North West Ordinance of 1787
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established procedures for the creation of new states in the North west Territory
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september 17,1787
constitution signed by 39 of the 42 states
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