what 3 historical documents were most important when forming the united states government?
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the Bible, Magna Carta, and common English law.\nthey used the Bible to argue "freedom for every man" and the role a government should play in people's lives.\nthe Magna Carta was an English document in which the power of the king was limited.\nand common English law was used to establish our military, police, etc.
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Excellent question! It seems that some of the most important documents in history were short and to the point. Could we ever use an Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson today! I think it just proves the point that those that have nothing to say, often speak the most but say the least.
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the day our founding fathers wrote and signed the contitution of the United States. no other country in the world has survived on the same constitution as long as the us has. This is the greatest day in the greatest country in the world.
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The Magna Carta is one of the early documents that helped to model a government of the people. As such, it is an early precursor to our own Constitution. To do any real Constitutional history study, the Magna Carta must be studied. It would be like studying English without learning the alphabet.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Grant
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The Declaration of Independence was written to declare our nation's freedom. It was written so that our country could have a choice of religion, freedom of speech, and all the other freedoms we sometimes don't give thanks for and take for granted.
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The Preamble is the introduction to the US Constitution.\n\nAs an intro, it lists the specific goals that the Constitution meets.\nThere are six of them.\nOne other very important principle is also mentioned in the Preamble - popular sovereignty. (the people rule)\nThe words ..We The People..  emphasize the Framers' belief that government  ultimately should be in the hands of the people. \nThey built on John Locke's idea that legitimate government exists because of the ...consent of the governed....
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Mayflower Compact in U.S. colonial history, an agreement providing for the temporary government of Plymouth colony. The compact was signed (1620) on board the Mayflower; it created the first American settlement based upon a social contract. In it, the colonists combined together in a "civil Body Politick" whose purpose was to frame just and equal laws for the general good of the colony. The compact remained the basis of government in Plymouth for ten years, and all later governments in the colony developed out of the compact.\n\nThe Library of Congress >> Especially for Researchers >> Virtual Programs & Services \nHome >> Primary Documents >> American Revolution & New Nation >> Articles of Confederation Find in Virtual Services Web Pages Researchers Web Pages All Library of Congress Pages    \nPrimary Documents in American History\nThe Articles of Confederation\nArticles of Confederation and \nPerpetual Union...\nWilliamsburg: Va. \nPrinted by Alexander Purdie [1777].\nRare Book and Special Collections Division.\nThe Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The present United States Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789.\nAmerican Memory Historical Collections\nA Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation\nThe Journals of the Continental Congress contain the first draft of the Articles of Confederation as presented to the Continental Congress on July 12, 1776. It would take more than a year of debate before Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation on November 15, 1777. Two days later the Articles were submitted to the states with a request for immediate action. However, it was not until Maryland's approval on March 1, 1781 that the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified by all the states. On February 21, 1787, Congress approved a plan to hold a convention in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. \nThe Letters of Delegates to Congress contains drafts of the Articles of Confederation by Josiah Bartlett and John Dickinson from late June 1776. Both Bartlett and Dickinson were members of the committee responsible for writing the draft of the Articles of Confederation. This publication also includes a few notes on the plan of Confederation written by Bartlett.\nElliot's Debates provides a summary of the ratification process for the Articles of Confederation, a transcript of Thomas Jefferson's notes of debate on confederation, and another copy of the Articles.\nSearch this collection during the years 1776 to 1789 using the word "confederation" or phrase "Articles of Confederation" to locate additional information on this topic.\nDocuments from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789\nIncludes the special presentation To Form a More Perfect Union: The Work of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, which provides background information on the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation and the call for a new Constitution. Also contains an incomplete copy of the Articles of Confederation printed in 1777.\nThe James Madison Papers\nJames Madison's "Vices of the Political System of the U. States" outlined the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. \nSearch Madison's papers using the word "confederation" to locate additional documents related to the Articles of Confederation and the Confederation Government. \nThe Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals \nIncludes a
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The 3 Branches of Government are the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch.
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The Declaration of Independence
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try this site\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
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sent to your home?\n\nI'm not sure, but there are lots of websites you could download and print it.  Most encyclopedias include a copy (our old World Book's have it).\n\nYou can get the full text at this site, along with other information.\nhttp://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/\n\nThe US constitution is not a complex legal document (even though it is being turned into one by complex legal people).  It is not too long.  It is pretty clear. \n\nEveryone in the US should be famaliar with this document.\n\nThe preamble is poetic.  The bill of rights (the attachement) is the key to our way of life.\n\nGood luck and good reading.
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Revolutionary War\nDeclaration of Independence\nContintental Congress\nBoston Tea Party\nStamp Act\nTaxation without Representation
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For starters, write in plain English, without substituting numbers for letters and using proper grammar. If you ask me, you should know what to write about the Federalist papers if you're in AP US History, but maybe I'm just fooling myself. 2 pages seems like a bit much for such a short letter.\n\nIf you don't have it already, there's a text for these papers at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm\n\nWhat is this project? A summary? An analysis? If it's a summary, then you have your work cut out for you. Summarize each paragraph, as easy as that. If you're doing an analysis, think of what factors might have caused Madison to publish this paper and why he wrote what he did. Try to gauge the impact that the papers had on society and the atmosphere of the time.\n\nAnd use Wikipedia. Like mad.
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Read the constitution it's explained
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Key Event: America Signs Treaty with Tripoli.\n\nSome more Key Events in President George Washington's Administration\n\n• Precedents---Washington established two main precedents: a cabinet and the two-year term.\n• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794---Washington ordered 15,000 troops to Pennsylvania and crushed the first challenge to federal authority.\n• Farewell Address, 1796---Washington warned against the evils of political parties and "tangling alliances" abroad. \n\n\nOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." \n\nBorn in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. \n\nHe pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. \n\n   \n From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. \n\nWhen the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years. \n\nHe realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. \n\nWashington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President \n\nHe did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger. \n\nTo his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \n\nWashington enjoyed less than three years of retir
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It was among the earliest state constitutions.  Actually, it was written before the Constitution of the United States (1787).