4. Write an example of written constitution.
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Answer:
The Fundamental Orders (FO) of Connecticut (1639) is sometimes called the first written constitution in the west. There were previous documents (Magna Carta, Mayflower compact), but these were seen as addenda, limits, or explanations of the great body of unwritten, or common, law that governed. The FO was intended to be the skeletal structure upon which a government would be formed around, and thus a constitution.
The Founding Fathers were bent towards having a written constitution because they felt aggrieved by England having defended its actions based on the nebulous, unwritten common law, and so the Founding Fathers decided to write out their own basic structure, or in John Adams words, having “a government of laws and not of men.”
Answer:
The Fundamental Orders (FO) of Connecticut (1639) is sometimes called the first written constitution in the west. There were previous documents (Magna Carta, Mayflower compact), but these were seen as addenda, limits, or explanations of the great body of unwritten, or common, law that governed. The FO was intended to be the skeletal structure upon which a government would be formed around, and thus a constitution.
The Founding Fathers were bent towards having a written constitution because they felt aggrieved by England having defended its actions based on the nebulous, unwritten common law, and so the Founding Fathers decided to write out their own basic structure, or in John Adams words, having “a government of laws and not of men.”