HIST-UA 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Excessive Bail Clause, Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31 Aug 2016
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Two principles of english gov"t: limited gov"t and representative. Gov"t: limited gov"t - government is not all powerful by magna carta (no absolute monarchs). Later interpreted as protection against unjust punishment and life, liberty, and property except according to law: representative gov"t - people elect delegates to parliament to make laws and conduct gov"t. Lower chamber house of commons american legislatures developed from parliament. Petition of right - english monarch couldn"t collect taxes without. Parliament"s consent, imprison people without just cause, house troops in private homes w/o consent, declare martial law. English bill of rights - applied to colonists as well as people of. New political ideas - colonists influenced by john locke, voltaire, Jean jacques rousseau - people have contract w/ government to protect natural rights. Locke- all people born free and equal, natural law provides rights to life, liberty, property; if government can"t protect these rights, need new government. Gov"t only legit if people consent to it.
