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1750 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
1.a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia.
2.one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. -
431 BCE
pericles' Funeral Oration
1.a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
2.at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead. -
Jun 15, 1215
King John I-Magna Carta
1.make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons.
2the king, would govern England and deal with its people according to the customs of feudal law. -
Jan 1, 1350
Iroquois Confederacy Council
1.American Indian confederation
2.during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America . -
John Locke-Two Treatises on Government
1.a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke .
2.in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer 's Patriarcha
3.a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
1.The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
2.Influenced also by the doctrine of " natural right "
3. the rights of man are held to be universal . -
Amendment XV to the US Constitution
1.amendment XV to the US Constitution & state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's " race , color , or previous condition of servitude."
2.political or social equality; democratic spirit. -
New Zealand-Election Act
1.Women's suffrage was the most consequential change.
2.New Zealand was the first to give women the vote in modern times. -
Military Voters Act
1.giving the right to vote to all Canadian soldiers.
2.The Act was significant for swinging the newly enlarged military vote in the Union Party's favor.
3.it gave a large number of Canadian women the right to vote for the first time. -
United Nations-Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1.It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.
2.there won't be anyinhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. -
Aboriginals gain right to vote in Canada
1.the final group of Canadian to attain the right to vote.
2.no more racial discrimination. -
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
1.Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms.
2.Fundamental Freedoms&Democratic Rights.
3.a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
