Basic Notions of Politics
The English colonists saw the need for an orderly regulation of their relationships, known as this
Ordered Government
Signed by Charles I, limited the king's power in several ways but must importantly that the king could not impose martial law
Petition of Right
Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin, that proposed the creation of an annual congress of delegates from each of the 13 colonies
Albany Plan of Union
Founding Father who would serve as commander of the military in the war, and later the nations first President
George Washington
The idea that government is restricted in what it may do
Limited government
Signed by William and Mary of Orange: Prohibited them from raising a standing army in peacetime
English Bill of Rights
This meeting of delegates served as the Nation's first national government due to the ongoing Revolutionary War
Second Continental Congress
The Main Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The idea that government should serve the will of the people
Representative Government
Magna Carta
This 1774 meeting is where they prepared and sent a Declaration of Rights to England, protesting Their policies. They also planed to come back and meet a second time
First Continental Congress
Enlightenment thinker that influenced Jefferson's Ideas in the Declaration of Independence
John Locke
Common Features of the First State Constitutions included: popular sovereignty, separation of powers, civil rights and liberties, and this type of government
limited
Document that Declared America's Independence from Britiain
Declaration of Independence
Meeting of 9 colonies in protest of Britains Stamp Tax
Stamp Act Congress
Another name for tariffs or taxes on goods
Duties
The "league of friendship" created by the New England Settlements for defense against Native American Tribes
New England Confedration