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US History Ch 4
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11th Grade
05/10/2011

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Mayflower Compact

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Separatist leaders drew up an agreement know as the Mayflower Compact. It was the first written framework for self-government.
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Magna Carta

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It was an agreement made in 1215 between King John and his barons listing rights granted by the monarch to all free men of the kingdom.
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English Bill of Rights

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Act passed by Parliament in 1989 further limiting the monarch's power by giving Pailiament the solepower to tax and specifying citizens' rights, such as trial by jury and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
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House of Burgesses

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The first legislature in the English colonies in America, formed in 1619.
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