Influential Documents and Ideas. These basic notions of ordered, limited, and representative government can be traced to ideas that began to emerge hundreds.

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Influential Documents and Ideas

These basic notions of ordered, limited, and representative government can be traced to ideas that began to emerge hundreds of years before the English reached North America, as well as to several landmark documents in English history.

The Magna Carta A group of determined barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta— the Great Charter—at Runnymede in Weary of John’s military campaigns and heavy taxes, the barons who prompted the Magna Carta were seeking protection against heavy-handed and arbitrary acts by the king.King JohnMagna Carta Included guarantees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law (protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property).due process Those protections against the absolute power of the king were originally intended for the privileged classes only. Over time, however, they became the rights of all English people and were incorporated into other documents. The Magna Carta established the critical idea that the monarchy’s power was not absolute.

The Petition of Right The Magna Carta was respected by some monarchs and ignored by others for 400 years. Over that period, England’s Parliament slowly grew in influence. In 1628, when Charles I asked Parliament for more money in taxes, Parliament refused until he agreed to sign the Petition of Right.Charles IPetition of Right

Petition cont… The Petition of Right limited the king’s power in several ways. Most importantly, it demanded that the king no longer imprison or otherwise punish any person but by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. The document also insisted that the king may not impose martial law, or military rule, in times of peace, or require homeowners to shelter the king’s troops without their consent. The Petition declared that no man should be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament. —Petition of Right The Petition challenged the idea of the divine right of kings, declaring that even a monarch must obey the law of the land.

English Bill of Rights In 1689, after years of revolt and turmoil, Parliament offered the crown to William and Mary of Orange. The events surrounding their ascent to the throne are known as the Glorious Revolution.William and Mary of Orange Glorious Revolution To prevent abuse of power by William and Mary and all future monarchs, Parliament that same year drew up a list of provisions to which William and Mary had to agree. This document, the English Bill of Rights, prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free.English Bill of Rights

In addition, the document declared that the pretended power of suspending the laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of Parliament is illegal... that levying money for or to the use of the Crown... without grant of Parliament... is illegal... that it is the right of the subjects to petition the king... and that prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal... —English Bill of Rights The English Bill of Rights also included such guarantees as the right to a fair trial, as well as freedom from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment.

Conclusion Our nation has built upon, changed, and added to those ideas and institutions that settlers brought here from England. Much in American government and politics today bears the stamp of those early English ideas. This is not so strange when you recall that the colonial period of American history lasted for some 170 years and that the United States has existed as an independent nation for only a slightly longer period.