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Charles de Montesquieu

Jean Jacques Rosseau

William Blackstone
good enlightenment thinkers, constitution writers took their ideas
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George Mason
from virginia

opposed the constitution bc he felt it didn’t give enough attention t the citizens rights
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James Madison
from virginia

called for another meeting
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Alexander Hamilton
from New York

persuaded everyone to call for another meeting
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Daniel Shays
Shay’s rebellion

* rebellion in that farmers couldn’t repay their debts, so they had an armed uprising

he was an officer in the War for Independence

* several state judges closed their courts

attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield
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James Wilson
Pennsylvania delegate

proposed the idea that the British govt had no authority over the colonies
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John Locke
enlightenment thinker

* natural rights
* social contract theory
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Roger Sherman
of Connecticut

met in GA september 5, 1774
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George Washington
Virginia legislator

voted against British Policies, defied royal orders and organized boycott of British trade
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Thomas Jefferson
joined the Virginia delegation

primary author of declaration of independence

* last attempt to make peace
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Sam Adams
committees of Correspondence

* organized resistance
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John Adams
rising lawyer in Boston

defended the British accused of murder in the boston massacre

supporter of independence and political analyst
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John Jay
moderated with GB

helped draft Olive Branch Petition
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Benjamin Franklin
offered albany plan of union

* problems with trade and attacks of French and Indians
* thought delegates should exist
* regulate trade, taxing, and customs
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William Penn
got pennsylvania in 1681,

Deleware in 1682
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King John
the man who signed the Magna Carta

* banned king from doing “heavy handed acts”
* guaranteed fundamental rights
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King George II
granted GA to 21 trustees who governed the colony
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george Calvert/ Lord Baltimore
king gave maryland to , they wanted it to be a catholic haven
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William and Mary of Orange
parliament offered the crown to them after the Glorious Revolution

parliament agreed to English Bill of Rights

* elections are free
* fair trials
* no standing army in peacetimes
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King Charles I
asked parliament for more money in taxes

parliament refused until he’d sign the petition of right (limited king’s power)