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The essence of england's common law is that of jugdes sat around applying legal precedent and facts. The decision of the supreme court of the united kingdom is the highest civil appeal court and binding on every other court
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Magna Carta established for the first time the principle that everybody including the king was subject to the law.
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The Parliment developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King. it went through short periods of rapid growth.
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the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company.
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first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by separatist Congregationalists.
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The orders describe the government set up, setting its structure and powers.
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In the late 17th and 18th centuries. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith
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It was published in 1651. Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan
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In the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 they replaced the reigning king James the II. The revolution was secured in Ireland and Scotland by force
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A work published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. First Treatise attacked patriarchalism. Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society
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The Bill of Rights dealt with constitutional matters and laid out certain basic civil rights. Bill of Rights lays down limits on the powers of the monarch.
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French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. He attacks the Catholic Church to show freedom of religion and expression.
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Montesquieu was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher. Famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers,
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He presents private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. He explains the conception of a human state of nature.
