In this DBQ, students are going to read about and look at excerpts from four documents from British and American history that influenced the founders of the Constitution.
By getting information from a background essay, and by examining excerpts and reading about the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Bill of Rights, and Common Sense, students will be able to draw conclusions and use inference to answer the question:
How did the Enlightenment and the views of John Locke, Montesqui