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Jan 1, 1000
COMMON LAW
Common law also known as case law is law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive branch action. -
Jan 1, 1215
MAGNA CARTA SIGNED
The magna Carta was found in Egypt and was discovered by Paul Barton also this is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13 t h century in modified versions which omit certain temporary provisions, including the most direct challenges to the monarchs authority. -
Jan 1, 1265
PARLIAMENT ESTABLISHED
In 1066, William of normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants in chief and ecclesiastics before making laws. In 1215, the tenants-in-chief secured magna carta from King John, which established that the king may not levy or collect any taxes except the feudal taxes to which they were hither to accustomed save with the consent of his royal council which gradually developed into a parliament. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION
The Iroquois pronounced also known as the Haudenosaunee or thePeople of the Longhouse are an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America. After the Iroquoian-speaking peoples coalesced as distinct tribes, based mostly in present day upstate New York, in the 16th century or earlier they came together in an association known today as the Iroquois League, or theLeague of Peace and Power -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
SEPERATION OF POWERS
The separation of powers, is a model for the governance of both democratic & federative states. The model was first developed in ancient Greece and came into widespread use by the Roman Republic as part of the uncodified Constitution of the Roman Republic. -
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COLONIAL LEGISLATORS
The organization and structure of British colonial governments in America shared many attributes. While each of the Thirteen Colonies destined to become the United States had its own history and development, there emerged over time some common features and patterns to the structure and organization of the governments of these provinces. By the time of the American Revolution in 1775, most of these features applied to most of the colonies. -
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WRITEN CONSTITUTIONS
Britain has an uncodified constitution, not an unwritten one. Pretty much every bit of it exists written down, in documents such as the Magna Carta, the 1689 Bill of Rights, and the Parliament Acts. The British constitution also exists in every single piece of legislation ever passed by Parliament, since there is no division between primary and secondary legislation. It also exists in common law, treaties with foreign powers, and analaysis and commentary made by experts such as Bagehot. But it -
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NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION APPROVED
The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a political and military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Established May 29, 1643,its primary purpose was to unite the Puritan colonies against the Native Americans. -
THOMAS HOBBES-LEVIATHAN
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory -
ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS ESTABLISHED
The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament in December 1689.It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England -
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JOHN LOCKE-TWO TREATIES OF GOVERNMENT
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ENLIGHTMENT
The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual, scientific, and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. -
ADOPTED ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
The plan is noteworthy in several respects. First of all, Franklin anticipated many of the problems that would beset the government created after independence, such as finance, dealing with the Indian tribes, control of commerce, and defense. In fact, it contains the seeds of true union, and many of these ideas would be revived and adopted in Philadelphia more than thirty years later. -
BARON DE MONTESQUE-ON SPIRT OF LAWS
The Spirit of the Laws french is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1748 with the help of Claudine Guérin de Tencin. Originally published anonymously partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside of France was aided by its rapid translation into other languages -
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SIR JOHN BLACKSTONE-COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND
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FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MEETS
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SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MEETS
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met briefly during 1774, also in Philadelphia. -
JEAN JACQUE ROUSSEAU-THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
Jean Jacques Rousseau 28 June 1712 2 July 1778 was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the American Revolution and the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. -
DECLERATION OF INDEPENDANCE SIGNED
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and then no longer a part of the british empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary -
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the Articles in June 1776 and sent the draft to the states for ratification in November 1777. In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777. The ratification process was completed in March 1781. Under the Articles, the states retained sovereignty over all governmental function -
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RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
Putting the Constitution in the hands of specially elected conventions would avoid the hostility of state officials jealous of their states sovereignty as would the nine states requirement -
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION MEETS
Even before Shays Rebellion prominent Americans were thinking of means to strengthen the Articles of confederation. James Madison and others met with George Washington at Mount Vernon in 1785 to discuss commercial issues relating to Virginia and Maryland. -
BILL OF RIGHTS
The Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known.[1] They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of legislative articles, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, when they had been ratified by three-fourths of the States. -
MAYFLOWER COMPACT SIGNED
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the colonists were part of a separatist group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the English Church.
