Relacionar Columnas Growth of Rep. GovtVersión en línea Match the events, documents and important people who helped establish representative government in the 13 colonies por Bobbi Wood 1 John Locke 2 Virginia Declaration of Rights 3 Maryland Act of Toleration 4 Natural Rights 5 Distance from England Salutary Neglect Natural Rights 6 English Bill of Rights 7 John Peter Zenger Trial 8 Magna Carta 9 Great Awakening 10 Mayflower Compact 11 Virginia House of Burgesses 12 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 13 Consent of the Governed 14 Representative Government 15 Parliament The idea that government must get the approval of the people that it rules over. Religious revival that swept through the colonies encouraging an more independent spirit. Life Liberty and the Right to own Property Created in 1689 during the Glorious Revolution that gave Englishmen basic rights like freedom of religion, trial by jury. The first representative government that met in Jamestown Virginia in 1619. It will influence other assemblies in the colonies. A form of government where people elect Representative to make the laws for them. Granted freedom of religion in the colony of Maryland. It ensured that Catholics were not going to be persecuted. This trial established the idea of freedom of the press. That the newspapers are free to print information about the government. Written mainly by George Mason for the colony of Virginia that ensured rights for the colonist. Rights such as freedom of speech and religion and trial by jury. Signed in 1215 that limited the power of the King. It also stated that the King must get the consent of the people before he raised taxes. Influenced by Thomas Hooker, became the first written Constitution in America. Law making body in England Enlightenment thinker who stated that when a government become abusive, the people have the right to overthrow their government Reason why England allowed Colonist to have representative government Written in 1620 on the Mayflower by the Pilgrims. It established the idea of self-government for a colony whose laws would be created for the good of the colony.