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Influences on the Constitution Table
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|Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? |
|Magna Carta |The Magna Carta is a document that King John of England was forced into signing in1215. The|The Magna Carta directly influenced the United States |
| |Magna Carta was signed in order to greatly reduce the power that a king could hold in |Constitution because it was the founding document of English |
| |England. This document is comprised of 37 English laws that forced the Kings power to be |liberties and therefore of American Liberties. A great example of|
| |limited by written law. This in turn became the basis for Citizen’s rights. |this influence comes from Article 21 from the Declaration of |
| | |Rights in the Maryland Constitution of 1776: “That no freeman |
| |http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/magna-carta.htm |ought to be taken, or imprisoned… or deprived of his life liberty|
| | |or property but by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the|
| | |land.” |
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