It was not the first document written in America. The US did not come into being until the document was signed and ratified so in this sense it became the first document in the USA
constitution
It gave the colonists a system of societal rules to live by.
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The Virginia colony was the first to establish a representative government. The House of Burgesses was established in Virginia in 1619.
The Articles of Confederation set up an independent government in the years before the Constitution was ratified.
The first document written to govern u.s.a was The Articles of Conferderation.
The Mayflower Compact
the American democracy
The Declarations of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights set up the government of the United States and described how the government was to be operated. The site below has the transcript of each of these documents.
Probably the Magna Carta but the idea for limited government stretches far back
The United States of America was brought into existence upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the first legal document to define the new country and the first to set out a legal framework for the country.
State Constitution
A constitution is a document that sets down the fundamental political principles of a government.
The general purposes of American Government.
the constitution
State Constitution