The Declaration of Rights.
b. The Bill of Rights.
5. The foreshadowing of the American idea of written constitutions:--
a. Two conditions especially notable in England in the seventeenth
century.
b. The influence of these conditions on popular views of government.
c. The "Instrument of Government."
d. Sir Harry Vane's proposition.
e. Why allude to Vane's scheme when nothing came of it?
6. Early suggestions of written constitutions in America:--
a. The compact on the Mayflower.
b. Wherein the compact fell short of a written constitution.
c. The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut."
7. The development of the colonial charter into a written constitution:--
a. The limitation of the powers of colonial assemblies.
b. The decision of questions relating to the transgression of a charter
by a colonial legislature.
c. The colonial assembly as contrasted with the House of
Commons.
d. The difference between the written constitution and the
charter for which it was substituted.
e. The readiness of the people to adopt written constitutions.
8. The extensive development of the written constitution in
some states:--
a.
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