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2000 BCE
Iroquis
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the "Iroquois League", -
753 BCE
Ancient Roman Empire
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146 BCE
Ancient Greece
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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
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Petition of Rights
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John Locke
John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" -
Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. -
English Bill of Rights
This was a british law that was passed for succession from william III and Mary II that declared the rights and liberties to the people. This article was by the Parliament to protect the people. -
Thomas paine
Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.