Behind the Scenes
Something that Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau helped shape during The Enlightenment.
Future Governments around the world.
Thomas Hooker created this document
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Life, Liberty and Property
This man created the first elected legislature in the colonies
William Penn
Who started establishing self-governing bodies in the colonies?
Religious leaders
Document written in 1215
Magna Carta
Who believed in separation of powers for the government?
Montesquieu
What did John Locke believe?
Who influenced representative government creation?
Locke, Montesquieu and religious leaders
Colonists are able to create their own self-governments
Rights that can never be taken away
Unalienable Rights/ Natural Rights
First set of rules in the colonies, created in 1620
Mayflower Compact
Virginia House of Burgesses
First representative government in the English colonies
Unwritten English policy that allowed colonies to govern themselves
Salutary Neglect
What was the first document to establish self-government based on social contract?
Mayflower Compact
Why the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut considered important?
First written constitution in the colonies
What did the distance from Great Britain do for the colonies?
Allowed them to begin rich history of self-government. Creating different governing documents and bodies.
This caused church participation to grow
The First Great Awakening
This is when the first social contract was signed. The Mayflower Contract
British colonists being accustomed to the parliamentary system in England contributed to this
The development of representative government in the colonies
Distance from Great Britain allowed this
The creation of the Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was created due to...
Distance from Great Britain
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What allowed the colonies to develop a history of self government
Salutary Neglect
This colonial body had representatives elected by the people
Virginia House of Burgesses