Democracy

English Democracy

Jun 15, 1215

Features of English Democracy
No free man can be enslaved without judgement by his peers and by the laws of land
Restrictions on Taxes
No one denied or sold justice
Power of the King reduced
Formation of Parliment
Citizen Rights
How did this happen?
This happened when 25 barons cornered King Henry I in a field and forced him to sign the Magna Carta

Peasants Revolt

Jun 14, 1381

This was an insuccesful revolt by peasants and serfs to try and show the upper classes that they could not tax them for all they had. They also showed that they were all equally poor. They showed the higher class that they could not tax the already poor people for what they had.

Representative Democracy

Jan 1, 1800

Features
Country is divided into constitencies with a respresentive for each Constituency
They take concerns of the constituency and suggest them to the goverment
People Power
How it Happened
Societies became to big for all the citizens opinions to be acknowledged

Republican

Jan 1, 1854

Small goverment
Many functions, social gatherings
Anti gun, pro life, anti slavery, Pro-death penalty
How did this happen?
This happened as a combatant towards the Kanas Nebraska act which would increase slavery into territories of America

Athenian Democracy

Mar 2, 2022

The first ever democracy started in the city of Athens. It started from the goverment to avoid critism from the people.
The Features of Athenian Democracy
Freedom to vote by themselves
Popular Soveriegnty
Vote for legislation and Excutive bills on their own behalf
Exclusion of women
Only male citizens that had completed military training could vote