Influences on the Constitution

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Influences on the Constitution Table

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|Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? |

|Magna Carta |One of the most important events was the magna carta in the |The Magna Carta is the basis on the English Citizens right. The Magna Carta purpose |

| |year of 1215. This Magna Carta is a document that that King of |was to curb the King and make him govern by the old English laws that were in place |

| |England was forced to sign. He was forced to sign it because it|before the Normans were around. The Direct quote from the constitution and the Bill |

| |would reduce the power he held allowing for the formation of a |of Rights in article 21 states “That no freeman ought to be taken, or imprisoned, or|

| |powerful parliament. The Magna Carta was drafted first by the |disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in |

| |Archbishop Stephen Langton the most powerful Barons of England.|any manner destroyed, or deprived, of his life, liberty, or property, but by the |

| | |judgment of his peers or by the law of the land”. |

|Mayflower Compact |This document was signed on November 11, 1620 on the Mayflower |This was considered the first American Constitution but the Compact had little |

| |which at the...