British Policies that Influenced the Development of US Gov't

Citizens make the decisions on how government should work.

• Rule of Law

• Self Government

• Due Process

• Limited Government

All people must follow the laws; laws should be enforced fairly

• Rule of Law

• Self Government

• Due Process

• Limited Government

A government that has been limited in power by a constitution or written agreement.

• Rule of Law

• Self Government

• Due Process

• Limited Government

People have the right to fair and reasonable laws.

• Rule of Law

• Self Government

• Due Process

• Limited Government

A set of ideas that people should be free to do without restriction.

• Limited Government

• Rights

• Self Govenment

• Due Process

This document limited the power of the King and extended more rights to nobles. It was signed in 1215

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Rights

This document was an agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists. It was written by a group of Puritans in Plymouth in the year 1620

• Albany Plan of Union

• House of Burgesses

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

This document was sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I complaining of a series of breaches of law. Under the Petition of rights no taxes could be taken without consent of Parliament, no English subject could be imprisoned without cause-thus reinforcing the right of habeas corpus, no quartering of soldiers in citizens homes No martial law may be used in peacetime

• English Bill of Rights

• Petition of Rights

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• Albany Plan of Union

• House of Burgesses

This was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America.

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Self Government

• Limited Government

This was an early agreement between the colonial communities of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor that established a representative government based on the example of a number of Massachusetts colonies. It's arguably the very first constitution of the American colonies.

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Albany Plan of Union