Some European documents we took ideas from to build our government was the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. As a matter of fact, American colonists wanted to implement some ideas of the enlightenment philosophers such as Locke and Montesquieu. Not to mention the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence. Some of the key ideas that the American colonists wanted to preserve in the Magna Carta and the English Bill were that they wanted to protect the church right in which every person had the right to choose what religion wanted to believe and to which church they wanted to go, not only the church rights were protected, but also they didn't want New taxes without the community agreement, this was made to prevent the king
