1. The English Origins of American Government

2. South Carolina End-of-Course Examination in US History Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

5. Constitutional Government LIMITED

6. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down... with the chains of the Constitution. -- Jefferson

8. Limited Government Individual Rights TAXATION BY CONSENT The Rule of Law Jury Trials

9. Checking monarchs since the 13 th century!

12. Absolutism Comes to England

13. The “Top Down” Approach

14. James II Unpopular “Papist” Run off by Parliament Throne VACANT No Bloodshed

15. { WANTED A monarch who will sit down, shut up, and let Parliament take care of governing.

17. Parliamentary Supremacy Executive Power Limited Free and Frequent Elections Taxation by Consent Catholic Monarch

18. Declaration of Rights Freedom of Speech (1) Right to Petition (1) Arms for Defense (2) (for Protestants, at least!) Cruel & U nusual Punishments (8) Standing Armies in Peacetime (3)

19. Natural Rights  Life  Liberty  Property

21. Locke’s Values: Religious Toleration Consent of the governed  Right of Revolution

22. English Political Traditions Constitutional Government Representative Government

23. Town Meetings (New England) Egalitarian Democratic

24. House of Burgesses (Virginia) Representative Aristocratic

25. Salutary Neglect

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