Explain How Americans used written documents to limit the power of their governments in the period 1620-1803.

Explain How Americans used written documents to limit the power of their governments in the period 1620-1803.
Mayflower Compact of 1620 (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp);

Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/maryland_toleration.asp)

William Penn, Charter of Privileges (1701) (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa07.asp)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741) (https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/edwards_jonathan/Sermons/Sinners.cfm)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789, chapter II (https://gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm#CHAP_II)

Albany Plan of Union (1754) (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/albany.asp)

“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (1775) by Patrick Henry (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp)

The Declaration of Independence (1776) (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript);

George Washington mini-series: The Newburgh Conspiracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hkEqwl7lJs: 58:30-1:06:00;

“Why Yankee Doodle Called It ‘Macaroni’” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcVNahOavw)

Painting: “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851) by Emanuel Leutze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_(1851_painting))

The Articles of Confederation (1781) (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/artconf.asp )

The Constitution (1789) (https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm);

The Bill of Rights (1791) (https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/bill-of-rights)

Federalist Papers 10 & 51 (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10; https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60)

George Washington, “Farewell Address” (1796) (https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Washingtons_Farewell_Address.pdf)

Lansdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1796) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne_portrait)

“Reluctant Nationalist, Eager Imperialists” (p. 371-421);

President Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jefinau1.asp);

President Thomas Jefferson’s Instructions to Meriwether Lewis (1803) (https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/preparing-for-the-expedition/jefferson-s-instructions-to-lewis/)

Marbury v. Madison (1803) (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/5/137)

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