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Two documents—the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights—greatly influenced American political thought. Each contained principles that the colonists eventually used to justify revolution. Later, those principles served as foundations for the new government they created. Likewise, two events in England in the 1600s—civil war and the Glorious Revolution—served in the short run to preoccupy the British and distract their attention from the colonies while in the long run serving as models for resisting the arbitrary power of kings.