...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |The Magna Carta was signed between the Barons of Medieval England and King John. The |The Magna Carta established the right of due process and provided a basis of higher law that could not | | |Great Charter was signed at Runnymeade near the Windsor Castle and was an attempt by |be altered by executive mandate or legislative acts ("Magna Carta: Cornerstone Of The U.s. | | |the Barons to prohibit the King from abusing his power over the people ("Magna |Constitution", n.d.). | | |Carta", 2000-2012).. | | | |The Magna Carta consists of 63 clauses, many of the clauses address the English legal |Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution. (n.d.). Retrieved from | | |system. It states that every man shall...
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...Influences on the Constitution Table No Name HIS 301 August 1, 2013 Professor Documents that became part of the US Constitution Magna Carta A document originally written by barons in 1215 and called the Articles of the Barons, is later modified and a formal version of the document was written and became known as Magna Carta. According to "Magna Carta" (n.d.), “In the 17th century, however, two defining acts of English legislation–the Petition of Right (1628) and the Habeas Corpus Act (1679)–referred to Clause 39, which states that "no free man shall be… imprisoned or disseised [dispossessed]… except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." Clause 40 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice")” (The Document and Its Legacy). This document would have big implications for the future of the American legal system. A specific part of this document was influenced in part of an amendment and written into the Constitution of what is known to become the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. The document became the basis of a higher law that could not be altered, even by legislative acts. It embraced the leaders of the American Revolution and parts of it are embedded in the US Constitution and enforced by the Supreme Court. The part of which we referring to say, “Nor shall any person be deprived...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. Documents | Summary | What was its influence on the Constitution? | Magna Carta | Charter drawn up in the attempts to stave off civil war against King John in 1215. The Magna Carta gave Englishmen certain human rights, freedom of religion, reform of justice system and regulated officials. The Magna Carta limited the king’s power and created what we know today as parliament. | Freedom of Religion, a maintained justice system allowing men a fair trial, freedom from oppression and unlawful persecution, that not one man should lead a nation solely, but a group of officials, and checks and balances. | Mayflower Compact | Men aboard the Mayflower bound for Northern Virginia in 1620 decided to land in what we know as Massachusetts. They signed the Mayflower Compact to enable that crew of men the right to self govern and have equal rights. | First constitution signed in The New World, organizing a local government of an elected governor and officials to regulate laws, and taxes. Basis for self government. | Articles of Confederation | With growing popularity in the ideas of independence from England, the colonies needed a way to unite them but not take away individual state/colony rights. Written in 1777 but not approved by all states until 1781. | Gave the idea of a central government while keeping most power within each...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. Documents Summary What was its influence on the Constitution? Magna Carta Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an English charter, originally issued in Latin in the year 1215, translated into vernacular-French as early as 1219,[1] and reissued later in the 13th century in changed versions. The later versions excluded the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority that had been present in the 1215 charter. The charter first passed into law in 1225; the 1297 version, with the long title (originally in Latin) "The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales. The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, for example by explicitly accepting that no "freeman" (in the sense of non-serf) could be punished except through the law of the land, a right which is still in existence today. Magna Carta was the principal document forced onto an English King by a group of his matters, the feudal barons, in an effort to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. It was followed and directly influenced by the Charter of Liberties in 1100, in which King Henry I had specified particular...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |The Magna Carta is the first document to challenge the king, |One of the most important influences was the habeas corpus: due process of law. This| | |protecting the people from feudal abuse (Whipps, 2012). It |was written in the middle of the Magna Carta, which came over to the “new world” | | |helped influence some key ideas into the U.S. Constitution. |with the pilgrims (Whipps, 2012). | |Mayflower Compact |This article was drawn up on the mayflower because of the |This was in a way the first constitution since there was not a government set up yet| | |mutinous speeches that had come about because of where they |when the pilgrims arrived. It attempted to establish temporary government in the new| | |were going to settle. In a way this was the first constitution,|world (history). ...
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...The American Constitution, a great document ratified on June 21, 1788, has had a great influence on the constitutions of other nations. After the American Revolution our nation decided it was time to dump the Articles of Confederation. After such a revolution our friends over at France decided to also rebel against the Monarch. After winning the revolution France decided to set up their own constitution. This constitution was developed in 1791, and was heavily based off of the American Constitution. The problem with the French constitution was that it didn’t limit the government. As a result the government became so powerful it eventually became a monarchy again. Everything that the French had fought hard for was destroyed. Though the...
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...The New Rule The United States of America was once a collection of British colonies before it transformed into a nation. As the colonies became independent from Britain and unified into a nation, the people realized that they needed a government that would support the people – a government that was not corrupt and did not hold absolute power. The American people did not want a repeat of the oppressive British rule that they had just freed themselves from. The leaders of America looked to the previous rule of the British rule to decide what their new government could not take away from the people. The Declaration of Independence influenced the Constitution by revealing how the people’s rights were once infringed and provided the stepping-stones on how to protect those rights. In the Declaration of Independence, the grievances of the British monarch are listed. The rule of the King was oppressive and the people had little to no rights to fight against it. A quote from the Declaration reads, “He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.” (1) Which explains how the British Monarch...
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...How the Declaration of Independence influenced the Constitution Ever since 1776, America has been built on the unification of its people and their freedom. When the Declaration of Independence was written, political ties between the American colonies and Great Britain were broken which lead to the creation of a fair government. The Declaration of Independence influenced the writing of the Constitution logically, ethically, and emotionally. The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, forms the logical thoughts that make up the document due to feeling a sort of injustice. Jefferson successfully makes an attempt to make a change with the goals of freedom, independence, and equality in mind. The Declaration goes on to state how equality should be carried out as it lists the wrongs that the King has committed against the American colonies. The Constitution is influenced by this list as the document contains a list of laws that establish the government. As the wrongs were listed in the Declaration, the laws in the Constitution protect the citizens from wrong in order to create “a more perfect union.” The Declaration builds a foundation...
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...All of the many people who suggested their ideas for the Constitution, got them by thoroughly studying other governments and places. The United States now runs by an indirect democracy. All in which was took bits and pieces from many other governments. The major influences on the making of the United States Constitution were ancient civilizations, the British government, and the Enlightenment. One of the many influences on the US Constitution was ancient civilizations governments that were studied extensively by the framers. Ancient Rome consisted of a strong representative type of government, a republic. The Roman Republic consisted of different types of governments, or a mixed government. Their republic included elements of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. The government worked in which a way where the decision were based off of the need of the people. In this type of government citizens were able to vote for congressmen and representatives. Likewise, the Constitution illustrates a republican form of government. In the United States, people elect senators, members of the house, and have some say in who the President shall be. Under British rule, the Americans were involved in a monarchy. The colonist...
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...The Constitution that America’s government revolves around was heavily influenced by many different documents and events. To continue, most events and documents that heavily inspired the way that the American form of government is derived from a time where Britain was still in control of the colonies, and the people started to understand what Britain could have been doing better. The Magna Carta, Boston Tea Party, and the Mayflower Compact played a critical role in enhancing the United State’s government. One main document that inspired the constitution used today was the Magna Carta. The document heavily focuses on the fact that Britain did not respect the American Idea that is stated. In the Magna Carta, it is stated that every citizen deserves equal rights, and that “no man deserves to be stripped of his rights,” which also contradicted Britain’s form of ruling. This influenced how the constitution was written by causing it to include a statement that proved that no citizen would feel as if they lacked rights that Englishmen had. However, the government felt a further lack of protection of such individual rights, which lead to the first 10 amendments, aptly...
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...and wanted to recoup their losses. This is when the slogan “No taxation without representation” gained infamy and newspapers began to influence public opinion regarding the “tyrannical” rule of George III. Once the colonies declared themselves independent and were successful in separating from Great Britain by unified effort and help from their French allies, they faced the problem of establishing a new government. The colonies would have wanted to be independent from each other, but none were strong enough to stand alone and remain protected from control or influence from stronger nations such as Great Britain or France. Thus the Articles of Confederation were born which strongly limited the power of a central government by giving it, among other responsibilities, foreign policy, legislature, and postal service, while also preventing it from establishing taxes or forming a national army, or passing laws without a strong majority of the States’ approval....
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...1. An influential person that influenced the constitution would be John Locke. In chapter one it states that Locke believed that at one time humans had little to no competition for resources but as the population grew and resources diminished it became harder for resources to go around for everyone this would usually cause disputes and conflicts between the people. The need for a neutral arbiter was needed to settle disputes peacefully the arbiter is known as the Government. During his Second Treatise of Government he identifies the basis of a legitimate government. Locke believed that the job of the government was to protect the natural rights of people which included life, liberty, and property and if the government did not follow through on protecting these rights the citizens could over throw that government. The authors of the Declaration of Independence rely heavily on Locke’s ideas which helped them write the...
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...James Madison was the fourth President of the United States and one of America’s most famous and important political philosophers. He was mostly recognized for writing much of the United States Constitution & writing the entire United States Bill of Rights, where he was given his nickname and is now known as the Father of the Constitution. He was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia to a large family of wealthy farmers. As a kid, he was very weak and ill, but he always showed great effort in his studies, even to the point of risking his health. He studied day and night and never got any sleep. At the age of 25, Madison entered into politics as a delegate in Virginia’s state legislature. It wasn’t until 1776, when America declared their independence against Britain, starting the American Revolution. During the war, thirteen states organized a central government called the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was a document that formed a weak national congress and reserved the bulk of power for the states. When the war ended in 1783, Jame Madison and many...
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...The US Constitution and Bill of Rights were revolutionary since they changed a lot of things that favored the development of America and protected the citizens' rights. We could realize that by taking a look at the America today because these documents have affected the evolution of America. According to Digital History, the result from these documents are phenomenal, "the United States has been radically transformed over the past two centuries. Its population has soared from just 4 million to nearly 300 million. The federal budget has risen from $4 million in 1790 to over $1 trillion today" 1. The most important thing that they are still using the same governed structure stated by these documents even now 2. The US Constitution was established to create and change the governmental system by eliminating the monarchical society, and the Bill of Rights was a shield that helped people to prevent any downfall from the US Constitution. Both of them were the main factors to cut off the appearance of British government, reduce the overuse of power, and create the new and better governmental system....
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Complete each section below. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |Written in 1215, the document was a series of written promises |The magna carta served as the first piece of legislature attempting to keep the | | |that the King would rule England and deal with the people |rights for the people fair. The Americans saw it and read about it and decided it | | |fairly according to feudal law. It was an attempt by the barons|was time America had “higher law” ideas and design a document to give the people | | |to stop the king from becoming an oppressor more than a ruler. |rights and to protect them from oppression, such as the people during the time of | | | |the magna carta were suffering. | |Mayflower Compact |The mayflower compact served as the document needed to keep the|Much like the magna carta, the mayflower compact was put into...
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