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Mind Map by liberteplanche, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by liberteplanche
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Causes of The US consitution 1787
- Declaration of indepedence july the 4th 1776
- Creates the confederation congress: executive institution
- Assembles the 13 colonies in one confederation
- More of a treaty of friendship or alliance
- Can declare war and institute foreign policy
- Can declare war and institute foreign policy
- Not much power (cannot levy taxes)
- Fear from the people that there might be an attack on a country with such as weak executive
- Assembles the 13 colonies in one confederation
- Creates the confederation congress: executive institution
- Inspired by English legal and political history
- Mainly by the Magna Carta 1215
- But also by political philosophers such as John Locke
- Government with the consent of those governed
- Rights of life: Liberty and property
- Pure Liberal
- Government with the consent of those governed
- Mainly by the Magna Carta 1215
- Also trauma from British colonial rule
- The Mayflower compact 1620
- Settlers arrived in Cape cod Massachusets instead of Virginia
- Established a political contract, an agreement
- Inspired the constitution because "government with consent of the governed.
- Also, written down by the pilgrims when the british never did.
- Also, written down by the pilgrims when the british never did.
- Settlers arrived in Cape cod Massachusets instead of Virginia
- The Mayflower compact 1620
- Reformed the institutions: Federation vs confederation
- Established three branches of power
- Legislative: Congress (bicameral)
- House of representatives
- Representatives calculated according to the state's ppopulation
- Representatives calculated according to the state's ppopulation
- Senate
- Each state gets two senators
- Each state gets two senators
- House of representatives
- Executive
- judicial
- Legislative: Congress (bicameral)
- Established three branches of power
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