Constitutional Principles Of Great Britain

Great Britain provided many basic constitutional principles to the colonies. There are seven major principles of state governments, which were all connected back to England. Natural rights and higher law, social contract, popular sovereignty, republicanism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and legislative supremacy were these ideas. Many of these principles were utilized in our U.S. Constitution. The only differences are that social contract and legislative supremacy were removed. However, natural rights and higher law were altered to become individual rights. These constitutional principles founded our government and shape our country.

There are many basic ideas that we adapted from Britain into our government, one being republicanism.