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-was the first written legal document
-Nearly one-half of the code deals with matters of contract, establishing.
-The Code issues justice following the three classes of Babylonian society: property owners, freed men, and slaves.
-"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." -
-was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war
-power rules by all the people
-Everyone is equal before the law. -
- a list of 63 clauses draft to limit John's power -the first time royal authority officially became subject to the law
- no one will be punished without going through the proper legal system
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-the world’s oldest representative democracy
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-The first treatise was an attack on Robert Filmer.
-The second treatise is about power, governance, and reason.
-agreed that the ''state of nature'' had existed
-give up some freedom for security, protection, and safety
-the best kind of government was restricted the least amount of freedom. -
-is one of the most important papers of the French Revolution
- it did not say anything about the rights of women.
-Men are born free and equal in rights. -
-Every citizen of the United States included any race or colour has the right to vote.
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-New Zealand was the first country in the world to let women vote in parliamentary elections.
-Women who had property and paid rates could vote in local government elections in Otago and Nelson in 1867.
-New Zealand women didn't gain the right to stand for Parliament until 1919. -
-gave the vote to all Canadian soldiers regardless of their period of residence in the country.
-gave a large number of Canadian women the right to vote for the first time. -
-for all people and all nations
-Everyone is born free, equal, and rights.
-Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. -
-Aboriginal people are the last group of Canadians to have the right to vote.
- In 1948, a parliamentary committee recommended that Aboriginal people receive the vote.
-In 1960, the government of John Diefenbaker extended the vote unconditionally to the First Nations. -
-freedom of religion, thought, expression, communication and association
-the right to join political activities and democratic government
-the right to life, liberty and security
-can move to any place
-equality, language rights