Influences on the Constitution

Influences on the Consititution

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, in English as: "great charter" - is one of King John Lackland of Runnymede in England on 15 June 1215 agreement signed with the rebellious English noble. It is considered the most important source of English constitutional law. A significant part of the Magna Carta is a verbatim copy of the Charter of Liberties of Henry I, who granted his rights to the English aristocracy. The Magna Carta securitized basic political liberties of the nobility against the English king, whose country at that time a fief of the Pope Innocent III was (Richardson & Everingham, 2005). The church was guaranteed the independence of the crown. The document was adopted by the king only with considerable pressure from the barons.

Mayflower Compact

The Mayflower Compact is an agreement drafted by the Pilgrims during the voyage on the Mayflower from Plymouth in England and Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. It was signed by just under half of the settlers 11 November 1620. The pact, an agreement between the settlers for the administration of the Plymouth Colony, is often referred to as the basis of the constitution of the United States.

The Mayflower was originally scheduled to sail to the estuary of the Hudson, and disembark passengers in territory ceded by royal patent to the London Virginia Company, But the colonists took the decision to land a little further north, in what is now Massachusetts. By this change, eighteen settlers who had the status of serfs engaged proclaimed that, since their establishment was no longer on the territory of Virginia, they would no longer have to servitude they wanted to impose. To avoid undesirable drifts, a majority of other settlers, including the Pilgrims, decided to agree on a government. The Mayflower after a stopover in Newfoundland began at anchor in Plymouth (previously founded by Captain John Smith) in December 1620.

The Mayflower Compact was based on a model democratic majority (although the signatories are not the majority) and the settlers' allegiance to the king of England (Yero, 2006). It was basically a social compact by which the settlers consented, on behalf of the group's survival, to follow the rules and regulations passed under the Compact.

The Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, known as the Articles of Confederation, formed the first governing document of the United States of America. It Was approved by the Second Continental Congress on November 15 of 1777 after several months of debate. It was a non-binding guideline to its ratification four years later, on March 1st of 1781. The Articles of Confederation is considered one of the four founding documents of the American nation.

The items formed a confederation uniting the weak thirteen colonies American British, with the ability to govern almost only in times of war and emergencies. After the end of the War of Independence and the beginning of new priorities, its limitations became apparent (Price, 2004). This document was replaced by the United States Constitution after its ratification on ...