FCLE Study Guide 2023/2024 Updated Review

FCLE Study Guide 2023/2024 Updated Review What historic document (17th century) created a "civil body politic"? - The Mayflower Compact What was the Magna Carta? - First document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law What document did American colonists, protesting the Stamp Act in 1766, claim gave them rights such as "no taxation without representation"? - Virginia Resolves Americans, especially by the 19th and 20th centuries, claimed what about the Magna Carta? - believed they were entitled to the same rights as Englishmen What was Thomas Paine's Common Sense? - a book that advocated independence from great britain to the thirteen colonies What was the influence of Common Sense? - CONTINUES....