Origins of American Government
Our Political Beginnings
Our system of government has its origins in the concepts and political ideas that English colonists brought with them when they settled North America. The colonies served as a school for learning about government.
Limited Government:
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-individual rights cannot be taken away
charter
ReplyDelete- in 1624, the king revoked the London company's charter & Virginia became the first royal colony
Ordered Government;
ReplyDeletea government where it has regulations between all parts of government and state. They are government rules or laws to help people get along and understand, and under go a penalty if they do not follow the set rules
-5th period
Charter Colonies at the start of the American Revolutionary War were:
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Massachusetts (Charter then Royal)
Rhode Island
-5th period
The Magna Carat
ReplyDeleteThe people who wrote the Magna Carta were seeking protection against the arbitrary acts of the king.
- included fundamental rights such as trial by jury, protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty or property.
- the magna carta established the principle that the power of the monarchy was not absolute.
The ordered government is orderly regulated of their relationship with one another. They're restricted on what they can and can not do. They are limited so they have justice of the peace, the grand jury and etc;
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