Part one of term paper
Our Constitution and our laws are founded upon English law. That system started with the Magna Charta in 1215. Regarded as the foundation of English Constitutional Liberty, it: regulated the administration of justice, secured personal liberties and rights, set the limits of taxation, and laid down the privileges of the church. In 1297 Magna ...

Part two of term paper
... parties, thus contributing to the theory of a social contract and it contained certain provisions that several centuries later, would inspire such documents as The Petitions of Rights (1628) and the Bill of Rights (1689). John Lock's ideas have been transposed on the legal plane of England in "The Petition of Rights" (An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setting the Succession of the Crown)" (1628) They declared, in principle, the parliament supremacy, the right to free e ...