Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Limiting the Central Government
- Declaration of Independence
Anmerkungen:
- Written by Thomas Jefferson and the Contintenal Congress in 1776.
- G1. Refused to Assent to Laws
- G2. Forbidden his Governors to pass laws
- G3. Refused to pass other laws
- G4. Call together legislative bodies.
- G5. Dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly
- G6. Refused to let house be reelected
- G7. To prevent the population of these states
- G8 Obstructed the Administration of Justice
- G9. Made Judges dependent on his will alone
- G10. Erected multitude of New Offices
- G11. Standing armies without the consent of our legislatures
- G12. Affected to render the Military
- G13. Combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
- G14. Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us
- G15. Protecting them from punishment for any murders
- G16. Cutting off our trade
- G17. Imposing taxes on us
- G18. depriving us in many cases by trial by jury
- G19. Tried for pretended offenses
- G20. Abolishing the free system of English Laws
- G21. Abolishing our most valuable laws
- G22. Suspending our own legislatures
- G23. Abdicated Government here
- G24. Plundered and destroyed the lives of our people
- G25. Transporting large armies to colonies
- G26. Constrained our fellow Citizens
- G27. Excited domestic insurrections
- G28. We have Petitioned but not been heard
- Bill of Rights
Anmerkungen:
- Written by James Madison and Congress in 1789
- Amendment I- Freedoms
- Amendment II- Right to bear arms
- Amendment III- Protection from quartering
- Amendment IV- Protection from search and seizure
- Amendent V- Due process, self-incrimination, and private property
- Amendment VI- Trial by jury
- Amendment VII- Civil trial by jury
- Amendment VIII- Prohibit excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
- Amendement IX- Protection of rights not specifically stated in the Bill of Rights
- Amendment X- Powers of states and people
- Both designed for the protection of all people from the government