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THE MAGNA CARTA

ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS. THE MAGNA CARTA. Written in England in 1215 Written by 40 angry Barons to keep King John in check Often seen as the first statement of rights declared in the Western world. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS.

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THE MAGNA CARTA

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  1. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THE MAGNA CARTA Written in England in 1215 Written by 40 angry Barons to keep King John in check Often seen as the first statement of rights declared in the Western world

  2. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THE MAGNA CARTA Excerpt No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land."

  3. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THE MAGNA CARTA Excerpt To no one will We sell, to no one will We deny or delay, right or justice.“(Right to a speedy and public trial-6th amendment from the Bill of Rights)

  4. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN NOVEMBER OF 1620, 102 SEPARATIST PURITANS, CALLING THEMSELVES PILGRIMS ARRIVED IN CAPE COD. REALIZING THERE WAS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THEIR GOVERNMENTAL ALLEGIANCES AND JURISDICTION…….. THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

  5. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS THEY DRAFTED WHAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. THOUGH NOT A FULL BLOWN CONSTITUTION, THIS IS A STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT THAT REPRESENTS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE CRAFTED BY SOME OF THE EARLIEST AMERICANS . THE NEXT SLIDE HAS THIS EXCERPT: THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

  6. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God,…combine ourselves together into a civil body politic;… for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid;…as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

  7. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS Thomas Paine was new to the Colonies in 1776 but wrote the most fiery and effective document in mobilizing the people against Great Britain and George III COMMON SENSE 1776

  8. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS COMMON SENSE 1776 “Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”― Thomas Paine….Common Sense---

  9. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS Almost a year after the first shots of the Revolution were fired, the Continental Congress took up the issue of declaring independence from Great Britiain. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

  10. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS On July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress approve the draft by Thomas Jefferson, which we know today as… The Declaration of Independence. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

  11. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

  12. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,…. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

  13. ORIGINS OF OUR GOVERNMENT: IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS This was our first national ruling document, written mostly by John Dickinson. While it was effective enough to get us through the Revolutionary War, It mostly just kept the states in control. In 1787 after Shay’s Rebellion, a new government will be put in place, which we call the U.S. Constitution. The Articles of Confederation 1781

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