- "A market economy based on the principles and values of healthy competition [...]" (Angola Const. 2010)
- "Freedom of worship, its public practice and freedom to demonstrate one's opinions on all matters are guaranteed [...]" (Belgium Const. 2012).
- "It shall be a fundamental responsibility of the State to emancipate the toiling masses [...]" (Bangladesh Const. 1972).
- "National sovereignty in Afghanistan shall belong to the nation, manifested directly and through its elected representatives" (Afghanistan Const. 2004)
- "The law may not establish any distinction between native born and naturalized Brazilians, except in cases provided for in this Constitution" (Brazil Const. 1988).
- "Every citizen has the right to work and to choose the type of work within the bounds of public order and decency" (Bahrain Const. 2002)
Southern British Colonies
Alyssa Montgomery, Yein (Christina) Park, Brendan Boettger
The Declaration of Independence
- Free market
- Freedom of religion
- Sovereignty of nation
- True representative legislation
- Work is the duty of the citizen
The Role of Religion and the Church
Religion played lesser role
Maryland Act of Tolerance (1649)
- Secured freedom of worship
- All Protestants and Catholics
- All trinity-believers
Haven for Catholics
Labor Systems
- Export based economies
- Mostly large plantations
- Tobacco, sugar, rice
- Required large labor forces
Plantation
Slavery
1676 Bacon's Rebellion
- Safer and cheaper to have slaves
- Treated less brutally than in L. America
- Raised families
- Continual supply of slaves
- Indentured servants originally cheaper
- High death rates
- 7 year system
- Lower death rates
- Growing class of freemen
- Violent rebellion
- Leaders executed
Treatment of Native Americans
Coronation of Chief Powhatan
- Powhatan Confederation
- Fought constantly
- Bacon's revolution
- Attack on Native Americans
- Worked as slaves
Political Control and Oversight by the Mother Country
- Eventually all developed representative assemblies
- Carolinas' Fundamental Constitutions
Economic Mercantilism
The Dutch and Tobacco
Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663
- restricted trading and building
- Iron Act(1750) and Wool Act(1699)
Main crops - Rice and Tobacco
Headright System
- sought to increase immigration
Social Structure and Class System
- More fluid than European structure
- "Motility" over "Nobility"
- Wealth valued over high birth
- Slaves have no motility
- "Freeman" vs "Freedman"
Southern British Colonies
- Virginia
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
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