stated that society was created by a social

contract

• The Federalist Papers

• Magna Carta

• Leviathan

• English Bill of Rights

established the authority of Parliament

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Connecticut Compromise

• First Continental Congress

imposed an embargo on Britain

• First Continental Congress

• Magna Carta

• Connecticut Compromise

• English Bill of Rights

gave colonists experience with limited

self-government

• Magna Carta

• First Continental Congress

• Connecticut Compromise

• colonial charters and constitutions

concept that a government’s power is not

absolute

• representative government

• limited government

• colonial charters and constitutions

• First Continental Congress

writings that supported adoption of the

Constitution

• Connecticut Compromise

• English Bill of Rights

• Leviathan

• The Federalist Papers

type of congress created by the Articles of

Confederation

• representative government

• unicameral legislature

• limited government

• First Continental Congress

resulted in a bicameral legislature

• Connecticut Compromise

• First Continental Congress

• representative government

• English Bill of Rights

a government in which citizens elect delegates

• limited government

• colonial charters and constitutions

• representative government

• unicameral legislature

recognized the rights of the English nobles

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Leviathan

• The Federalist Papers