List three important English documents that influenced the Founding Fathers.?

Answer 1

MOST important -- English Bill of Rights of 1689 -- which justified the "Glorious Revolution", in which Parliament laid out the list of abuses by James II and officially replaced him (after he fled which they interpreted as "abdicating") with William and Mary. THIS document had a MAJOR influence on colonial thinking. Indeed, the Declaration of Independence is basically modeled on it, esp. its MAIN section (list of grievances).
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm

Second major document -- Locke's "Second Treatise on Government", published in 1691, in part AS a justification for the Glorious Revolution. (This was the ultimate source of the language --including that about rights to "life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness and safety" which government had the duty to protect, and the right to replace a government.)
see a summary of his political philosophy
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4n.htm

Finding a key third document anywhere near as important as these two is a bit harder --

Not sure how the "Mayflower Compact" gets in there --it was a COLONIAL document, and I doubt many of them had actually read it. BUT it certainly is the case that the founders WERE influenced by colonial "compacts" and charters, as a group. They even refer to them as a basis for their appeal to the King and Parliament in "Declarations and Resolves" of the First Continental Congress [October 14, 1774]. Note this key line, by which they introduce a specific list of rights they believe have been violated --

"the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS:"
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm

Most dubious is "Magna Carta" -- at least if you have in mind an appeal to SPECIFICS. They may well have had some general ideas about it as an early statement of English "rights", as more of an icon. I do not believe they APPEAL to it by name , but the may well have had this general view of it, in light of the fact that the document WAS a symbol of historic English rights to the 17th century Puritans and Whigs whose actions and writings in resisting the Stuarts -- reflected in the two documents listed above-- did so much to shape the founders' political thinking

Of course, there is ANOTHER set of "English documents" that very much influenced the Founding Fathers, more in (re)action than in philosophy --namely, the whole series of acts of Parliament to which they OBJECTED! There were a number of these, but perhaps foremost would be the Stamp Act (which led to the first organized boycott, which succeeded in

The last and most important in affecting the REVOLUTION would be the "Intolerable Acts" -- a group of which the First Continental Congress cited by name in the document linked above (in the section just preceding that I've already quoted), beginning and ending thus:

"And whereas, in the last session of parliament, three statutes were made; one entitled, "An act to discontinue. . . All which statutes are impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights".
(They give the FULL titles -- we call them the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Acts, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quebec Act.)

Answer 2

Three Founding Fathers

Answer 3

Yeah, I surely think of so. the rationalization that they made the regulations giving human beings ability in the government became into through fact of their family with the British monarchy. merely approximately all the invoice Of Rights have been further to guard and guard against the varieties of injustice they suffered under the British rule. Our founders tried to take the coolest components of the British government and found out from the blunders made by ability of it to attempt and create a central authority that would surpass all the different governments. i'd say that they succeeded.

Answer 4

The Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" (that is not really a document).
The Olive Branch petition.

Answer 5

Magna Carta
Mayflower compact
John Lock's writing
English Bill of rights


That's more than 3...

Answer 6

magana carta
the mayflower compact
english bill of rights
comman scence