Evolution of Democracy Assignment

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  • 1750 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    -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."
  • 431 BCE

    Pericles' Funeral Oration

    -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.
  • Jun 15, 1215

    King John I - Magna Carta

    • 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
  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Dec 31, 1350

    Iroquois Confederacy Council

    -the world’s oldest representative democracy
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    John Locke - Two Treatises Of Government

    -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.

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

    -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.

  • Amendment XV to the US Constitution

    -Every citizen of the United States included any race or colour has the right to vote.

  • New Zealand - Election Act

    -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.

  • Military Voters Act

    -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.

  • United Nations- Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    -for all people and all nations
    -Everyone is born free, equal, and rights.
    -Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

  • Aboriginals Gain Right to Vote in Canada

    -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.
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    Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    -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