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Locke's inalienable rights include...

• life, liberty, and property
• pizza, chips, and soda
• life, property, and travel
• freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, and freedom of assembly

Influenced Separation of Power and Checks and Balances 

• John Locke
• Thomas Jefferson
• Charles Montesquieu 
• George Washington 

First written constitution in the American colonies that influenced many ideas that are found in the U.S. Constitution.

• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Declaration of Independence
• Magna Carta

What did the Mayflower Compact include?

• It was the first constitution in the colonies
• it had a form of self-government
• in was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies
• none of these

1620

• Magna Carta
• Bill of Rights
• Mayflower Compact
• Christoper Colombus discovers America

The House of Burgesses is important in history because it was the 

• the first time a council advised the Virginia Company
• only legislative body in England
• first election of women as leaders
• first elective legislative body in America

8.3 (B) The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and FundamentalOrders of Connecticut were important in the development of democracy because they -- 

• gave all colonists the right to vote.
• ensured religious freedom
• overrode the power of the English king
• focused on the importance of self-government.

8.3 (B)

• It helped establish the tradition of self-government.
• It was the first attempt to combine political and religious laws. 
• It established the concept of unalienable rights.
• It outlined a plan for independence from British rule. 

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

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

_______________________ was the first written colonial constitution.

• The Mayflower Compact
• The Fundamental Orders of Massachsetts
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• The Declaration Of Independence