HUMAN RIGHTS

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  • 539 BCE

    conquered the city of Babylon

    In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon
  • Nov 6, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Documents asserting individual rights, such as the Magna Carta

  • the Petition of Right

    is one of England's most famous Constitutional documents.

  • the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

    The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments,

  • and the US Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights of the United States of America (1791) ... Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.

  • The Constitution of the United States

    A highly accessible, easy to use online version full text transcript including the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Amendments with both sequential and subject indexes.