Influences on the Constitution
DocumentsSummarize what this isWhy NotableMagna Carta A legal document written in 1215 CEIt had an influence on the legal system of Englands legal system. It was used as a model by many former colonies when developing their own legal systems.Mayflower CompactA written agreement composed by a Consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620.It determined the authority within the settlement.
It was drawn up with fair and equal laws.Articles of ConfederationIt was the first constitution of the United States of America.It legally established the union of the states.
It established the name of the confederation as The United States of America.
It asserts the equality of the separate states with the confederation government.
It defines the powers of the central government to declare war, to set weights and measures.Northwest OrdinanceIt was considered one of most important act ordinance of the United States Congress from 1781 to 1788It addresses the government of the area.
It set forth the process by which new states would be added to the United States and states that new states would have the same power as the original 13 states.
It prohibits slavery.Declaration of IndependenceIt is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.It created a new nation, i.e. United States of America.
It contains the most potent and consequential words in American history. PhilosophersSummarize who this person is and why he is notable.What philosophies influenced himThomas HobbesHe was an English philosopher. He is notable for his work on political philosophy and his contribution to a diverse array of fields. He was one of the philosophers that founded materialism.The philosophy of complete materialism.John LockeHe was an English Philosopher and physician whose work had a great impact upon political philosophy and the development of epistemology. He was the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. He is notable because he is widely known as the Father of Liberalism.LiberalismSelected SignersBenjamin FranklinFranklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character, a marriage of the practical and democratic Puritan values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible. He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an economistSectarianismAlexander Hamilton He was an American statesman, signer of the constitution and the founding father of the National Bank.Nationalism
FederalismJohn LangdonHe was one of the first two United States senators from that state. He later became the Langdon became governor of New HampshireFederalismRufus KingHe was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804, 1808) and President of the United States (1816).FederalismRoger ShermanHe was an early American lawyer and politician. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic.
FederalismWilliam LivingstonHe served as the Governor of New Jersey (17761790) during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United States Constitution.FederalismDavid BrearleyHe was a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution on behalf of New Jersey. Brearley was the first Grand Master of the New Jersey Masonic Lodge.FederalismThomas MifflinHe was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from PennsylvaniaFederalism
SocialismRobert MorrisHe was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art.George ClymerHe was one of the first Patriots to advocate complete independence from Britain. He was the first president of the Philadelphia Bank, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and vice-president of the Philadelphia Agricultural SocietyFederalism nationalismHugh WilliamsonHe was an American politician. He is best known for representing North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention.FederalismCharles PinckneyHe was an American politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, the 37th Governor of South Carolina, a Senator and a member of the House of RepresentativesPinckneys career forms a link between the political philosophy of the revolutionaryCharles Cotesworth PinckneyHe was an American aristocrat. Pinckney rejected Loyalist appeals and embraced the Patriot cause.patriotismJohn RutledgeHe was an American statesman and judge. He was the first Governor of South Carolina following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 31st overall. He served as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was the second Chief Justice of the Court from July to December 1795. He was the elder brother of Edward Rutledge, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.He subscribed to the idea of an ordered society that guaranteed the rights and privileges of men of property.James WilsonJames Wilson was a native of Scotland. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading legal theoretician, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States.His political philosophy was based upon implicit confidence in the peopleJohn DickinsonHe was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, he is known as the Penman of the Revolution for his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvaniapolitical philosophyGouverneur MorrisHe was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its signers. He is widely credited as the author of the documents preamble. Morris advanced the idea of being a citizen of a single union of states.2Patriotism federalismThirty-eight men from twelve states signed the Constitution. These are a select group of those individuals of whom the most background is known.
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