what document was used as a great example for the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution?Whowroteit?

Answer 1

The document - The Magna Carta.

Who wrote it - By 1215 the English lords had had enough of King John, and they got together an army and marched on London.
John was forced to sign the paper they put in front of him, which is known as the Magna Carta. (Magna Carta means "Great Letter" in Latin).
This letter wrote down two new ideas.
The first was that the king had to obey the law, like other people.
And the second idea was that if the king broke the law, the lords had the right to remove that king and choose a new one.

Answer 2

The magna carter written in 1215 in great Britain.

Answer 3

Well, MAYBE you're looking for Magna Carta, but I doubt it. That was more of a general ideal --the symbolic beginning of the development of the "British Constitution", NOT a document people pulled out and consulted.

I assume you are looking for a document that actually SHAPED the Declaration and U.S. Constitution, its form, ideas, perhaps even wording. If so, there are two possible ways to go

1) The most IMMEDIATE documents to influence the U.S. Declaration and Constitution were the STATE constitutions written beginning in early 1776. In fact, the Constitution of Virginia (CoV), written just before the U.S. Declaration may have had the greatest direct influence on it
a) in the preamble's reference to basic "human rights" of life, liberty, etc. which echoes the first part of the CoV, that is the "Virignia Declaration of Rights" (VDR) drafted by George Mason
b) in the "list of abuses" by the king, a section drafted by... Thomas Jefferson!

Also, the list of "rights" listed at the beginning of Mason's VDR looks like a number of items that appeared in the Bill of Rights later added to the U.S. Constitution.

But do note that these sorts of things --lists of grievances vs. rights-- were all over the colonies during the Revolution, including in various state constitutions. And of course ALL those state constitutions included some sort of description of how their new "form of government" was supposed to work, and this set the example for the U.S. Constitution.

2) The state documents, however, went back to ENGLISH legal forms -- and ESPECIALLY to the "English Bill of Rights" of 1689. This document, written by Parliament (don't know if we know the main people to draft it) at the time of the "Glorious Revolution". It justified the replacement of James II with William and Mary, including a list of the king's ABUSES, and of English & Parliamentary rights any future monarch was expected to recognize.

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If you want to look at them:

VIRGINIA STATE CONSTITUTION

Draft Constitution - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/jeffcons.htm

A copy of Jefferson's draft, with this editor's note -- "This draft profoundly . . was THE DIRECT PREDECESSOR of the Declaration of Independence. Shown here is Jefferson's litany of abuses by King George III, a topic of great weight in the Declaration."
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt003.html

The Constitution of Virginia (as passed June 29, 1776)
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=105



A couple of examples of other state constitutions -- note esp the list of GRIEVANCES in them:
Constitution of New Hampshire - January 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/nh09.htm
Constitution of South Carolina - March 26, 1776
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/sc01.htm

You also might want to look at some related language in documents from October 1774 -from the FIRST Continental Congress:
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm
The Articles of Association
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/art_assoc.htm


ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS of 1689
explained in its formal title as "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown"
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm

Answer 4

magna carter