"Magna Carta"
Introduction In this chapter you learned about government and culture in the colonies. The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, established the concept of limited government. This concept was already an accepted part of English government when the colonists began to develop their own local governments based on the English principles with which they were familiar.
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