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Evolution of Democracy Assignment

By Rubyyshii
  • 1750 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    Code of Hammurabi
    • In about 1780 B.C., a Babylonian ruler named Hammurabi codified hundreds of laws and had them written on an eight-foot stele made of black basalt.
    • Using a stylus, writers inscribed words on wet clay. Since their writing looks like wedges to us, we call it cuneiform.
  • 431 BCE

    Pericles' Funeral Oration

    Pericles' Funeral Oration
    • Pericles was a leading figure from the Greek Peloponnesian War.
    • He did lots of speeches at the funerals of citizens about the merits of democracy.
    • He talked about how the citizens of Athens worked for the greater good not because they were forced to as slaves or poor people like in other cities, but because they wanted to out of their own desire and will.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to

    Evolution of Democracy

  • Jun 15, 1215

    King John I - Magna Carta

    King John I - Magna Carta
    -One of the most famous documents in the world.
    - Most famously, the 39th clause gave all ‘free men’ the right to justice and a fair trial.
    - Magna Carta should not be seen as a sign of surrender.
    - Magna Carta contained 63 promises about what the king could and couldn't do.
    - John's rejection of Magna Carta caused another rebellion by the barons.
  • Jan 1, 1350

    Iroquois Confederacy Coucil

    Iroquois Confederacy Coucil
    -Iroquois Confederacy was composed of five large families, each having the dignified title of a nation.
    - Grand Council meetings of the Iroquois Confederacy are which affect all of the member nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga...
    - Often described as the oldest, participatory democracy on Earth, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s constitution is believed to be a model for the American Constitution.
    - For the Haudenosaunee, law, society and nature are equal partners and each plays an important role.

  • John Locke - Two Treatises on Government

    John Locke - Two Treatises on Government
    -The First Treatise is a criticism of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, which argues in support of the divine right of kings.
    -According to Locke, Filmer cannot be correct because his theory holds that every man is born a slave to the natural born kings.
    -The Second Treatise is Locke’s proposed solution to the political upheaval in England and in other modern countries.
    -It laid the foundation for modern forms of democracy and for the Constitution of the United States.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Declaration of the Rights of Man
    -A fundamental document of French constitutional history, drafted by Emmanuel Sieyès, adopted by the Constituent Assembly
    -The French declaration listed the "inalienable rights" of the individual
    -The rights to "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression" and the rights to freedom of speech and of the press were guaranteed.
    -Man are born free and equal in rights

  • Amendment XV to the US Constitution

    Amendment XV to the US Constitution
    -The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

  • New Zealand - Election Act

    New Zealand - Election Act
    -The governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult women.
    -New Zealand’s world leadership in women’s suffrage became a central part of our image as a trail-blazing ‘social laboratory’.

  • The Military Voters Act

    The Military Voters Act
    -The Military Voters Act was a World War I piece of Canadian legislation passed in 1917, giving the right to vote to all Canadian soldiers.

  • United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    -The United Nations (UN) came into being in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II.
    -The stated purpose of the united nation is to bring peace to all nations of the world.
    -People are all born free and equal
    -No slavery
    -people are all equal before the laws
    -Nobody has the right to put us in prison without good reason and keep people there, or to send people away from our country.

  • Aboriginals gain right to vote in Canads

    Aboriginals gain right to vote in Canads
    • The government of John Diefenbaker extended the vote unconditionally to the First Nations.
    • The federal government removed the restrictions placed on aboriginal peoples with respect to the vote. Beginning in 1960, aboriginal Canadians were no longer required to give up their treaty rights and renounce their status under the Indian Act in order to qualify for the vote.

  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom

    Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom
    -Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, to realize the United Nations' dream of unassailable human rights.
    -The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is one part of the Canadian Constitution. The Constitution is a set of laws containing the basic rules about how our country operates.
    -In Canada, human rights are protected by federal, provincial and territorial laws.