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Representative Government! The Road to Representative Government! Let’s Go for a Ride!

At the beginning of our journey, we only had a King or Monarch At the beginning of our journey, we only had a King or Monarch. He was in charge, his rules were law. Absolute Power!

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1215 – The Magna Carta 1) The First Limit to a Kings Power

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1619 – The House of Burgesses 2) The 1st Representative assembly in America. Jamestown, Virginia

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1620 – The Mayflower Compact 3) A Social Contract for Self Government.

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1636 – The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 4) 1st Written Constitution in America.

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1689 – English Bill of Rights (Glorious Revolution) 5) England Changed Their Monarchy and guaranteed the rights of the people and Parliament.

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1735 – The John Peter Zenger Trial 6) Established the Freedom of the Press.

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1776 – The Declaration of Independence 7) Broke all political ties to England.

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1787 – The U.S. Constitution 8) Created our current Government.

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1791 – The U.S. Bill of Rights 9) Protects our Individual Rights as citizens.

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At the end of our journey, we find the U. S At the end of our journey, we find the U.S. Government that is controlled by the people!