EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Common Sense, Articles of Confederation, Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Virginia Declaration of Rights, Common Sense, Bill of Rights
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Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Common Sense
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Magna Carta, Iroquois Constitution, Common Sense
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Detailed explanation-1: -C Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Common Sense Correct – These three core documents (one British document and two colonial documents) impacted the colonists’ viewpoints on the role and purpose of government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Centuries later, America’s Founding Fathers took great inspiration from this medieval pact as they forged the nation’s founding documents-including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights greatly influenced American ideas about government. The Magna Carta contained the ideas of limited government and common law, and it influenced constitutional ideas about limited government, habeas corpus, and the Supremacy Clause.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mayflower Compact set up a government with the first written set of laws for the English settlers who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. This document introduced the very important idea of self-government in the colonies. Self-government is the idea of people creating and running their own government.