Answer:
The basis for the U.S. Constitution were the Magna Carta of 1215, the Mayflower Compact of 1620, and the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
Explanation:
-Magna Carta of 1215: At the end of the eighteenth century, the Constitution of the United States became the supreme law of the country, recalling the way in which the Magna Carta had become a fundamental law. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that "[ anyone ] will be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law", a phrase derived from the Magna Carta. In addition, a similar text was included in the Suspension Clause of Article 1 Section 9: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it". Each of these proclaimed that no person can be imprisoned or detained without proof that he has committed a crime.
-Mayflower Compact of 1620: The Mayflower Compact was the first document of government in the colony of Plymouth.
The document was written by the Pilgrim Fathers, the immigrants who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, seeking freedom of worship. It was signed on November 11, 1620 on the shores of what is now Provincetown, near Cape Cod. It is considered by some to be the foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America, as it organized the government of the newly discovered territories for the first time.
-English Bill of Rights of 1689: The Bill of Rights is a document written in England in 1689, which imposed the English Parliament on Prince William of Orange to succeed King James II.
The main purpose of this text was to recover and strengthen certain parliamentary faculties that were already disappeared or notoriously diminished during the absolutist reign of the Stuarts (Charles II and James II). It is one of the immediate precedents of the constitutional organization of the legislative branch of the United States.
-It is also worth noting the influence that the tradition of democratic and egalitarian government of the Iroquois Confederation had on Benjamin Franklin at the time of writing the Constitution.
