century colonies.
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8. Sheila Skemp on camera;
intercut with images of Magna
Carta, John Locke, etc.
First of all, Americans had…developed a new
political order. They effectively developed
legislatures. And American politics was
marvelously participatory in its character.
11 SHEILA SKEMP: They also were steeped in the
12 English tradition of rights. They knew about the
13 Magna Carta. They knew about John Locke’s
14 notion that we all had certain natural rights—life,…
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