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Cyrus the Great
Cyrus was one of the many great people to say what everyone else was afraid to. He had created the largest empire the world had seen yet. He declared that all people of colour were free and are to no longer be slaves. He said that everyone was free to choose religion and establish racial equality. He was well known for something called the cyrus cylinder. this was found in 1879. The cylinder is a presentation of their human rights at the time. -
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The Spread of Human Rights
The spread started out with Cyrus the Great in Babylon in 539 BC. It quickly spread to India, Greece, and eventually Rome.The magna Carta was also a part of this in 1215. -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta (also known at the great charter) was brought into play because King John violated many laws and customs at the time. He was forced to sign The Magna Carta. It established principles of equality before the law. It also contained preparations forbidding bribery and official misconduct. The Magna Carta was supposedly the most important leagal documents and the crucial turning point to establish freedom. -
The Petition of Rights
The Petition of Right is a large English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
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Civil War
During the civil war (also known as the American Reveloution) America's South and north sides were fighting. This was a war held inside one country. They overthrew the authority Great Britain, and rejected the Bristish Mornarchy and aristocracy. -
The United States Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independance is when the United States of America decided to remove themselves from the ruld of Great Britain. Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in many different forms. -
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights came into effect and started with limiting the powers of the federal government of the United States and protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors in American territory. It also protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to petition. -
The Constitution of the USA
The Constitution of the USA is the fundamental law of the US nation wide system of government and the landmark document of the Western world. It is the oldest written national constitution in use and defines the important details of government, their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration says that all citizens are to be guaranteed the rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. the Declaration sees law as an expression of the general will, intended to promote this equality of rights and to forbid only actions harmful to the society. -
The United Nations
The goal of the United Nations Conference was to propose an international body to promote peace and prevent future wars.
The Charter of the new UN organization went into effect on October 24, 1945, a date that is celebrated each year as United Nations Day. -
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Member States of the United Nations pledged to work together to promote the 30 articles of human rights that, for the first time in history, had been assembled into one single document. Now many of these rights are today part of the constitutional laws of democratic nations.
