Magna+Carta+&+Mayflower+Compact

Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact

 * The Magna Carta of 1215 is an English bill of laws and rights that set a precedent of individual rights that influenced the culture of individual rights that influenced the worldview of the English colonists. The legacy of the Magna Carta had a direct influence on the creation of the Constitution of the United States.

[|http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp]

The Mayflower Compact was a simple, majority-rules form of patriarchal government that the Puritan and Seperatist pilgrims agreed upon before embarking to the New World.

[|http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp]

For this class, you will need to be able to draw upon these documents and their influence on the worldview of the English colonists for your essay on colonial and pre-Revolutionary America. ||