This was a big deal because it introduced the concepts of limited government, rule of law, and due process. It also helped create the nation's Parliament (kind of like Congress in the U.S.). The Magna Carta was a government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility.
Inspiration for the U.S. Government
Many political theorists, documents, concepts, and institutions influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution in their assertion of natural individual rights and grounding of political authority in the consent of the governed.
Many political theorists, documents, concepts, and institutions influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution in their assertion of natural individual rights and grounding of political authority in the consent of the governed.
The planter class were able to get small farmers to follow them given that they exercised a profound and disproportionate amount of social, economic, and political economic influence in southern society. Small farmer typically owns a few slaves. It was easy to convince the their interests were aligned
