Magna Carta's Influence On The Constitution

The Constitution was one of the most influential documents in the United State’s history, it established rules of the new country. Even though America was established in order to restart and get away from the British, they stole some parts of their own documents for the Constitution, such as the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the English Bill of Rights. The Magna Carta influenced the constitution by introducing the British’s idea of limiting the king from having too much power. The Americans implemented this idea to prevent the future leaders of America from overpowering the rest of the population. The Magna Carta states, “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land,”. This quote from the Magna Carta shows how the British wanted to make sure that the government, the king, wasn’t able to punish people for whatever he wanted to. This majorly influenced our government and Constitution giving us the idea of limited government. Limited Government is the more important differences from where we came from and where we …show more content…
The Mayflower compact included the ideas of self-government, meaning that we, the population of the United States, can make, or influence, laws that would be implemented by officials. The Mayflower Compact says, “...combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid,”. This shows how the citizens of England will come together to make rules that favor the population rather than just the rich or privileged. The founding fathers liked the idea of a self-governed country so they decided to implement this into their