-
500
The importance of classical ideology of civic virtue
Started with the greeks and ancient rome. An example is the trial of Socrates with the beginning of democracy. -
Jan 2, 1215
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is provided for a legislative body of elected representatives and made it clear that written laws were a higher authority than the monarch. The Magna Carta was the forerunner of the country's Bill of Rights, which affirms the equality of all citizens bfore the law in president-day England. -
Theory of Natural Rights with French and English philosophers
Started to question what the Church said, and and came out the Bill of Rights. The impact of Natural Rights made government (democracy) as we have it today. -
Mayflower
The Mayflower was the boat who transported 102 English piligrims adn a group of Separatists to New England. -
Parliamentary Democracy 1628-1689
The bill of rights in 1689 reinforced the Parliament´s powers, which granted free speech, and banned cruel punishments. In 1690, the English philosopher John Locke published "Two Treanses of Government. Locke maintained that government was founded on a social contract to protect the individual´s rights to “life, liberty, and property.” -
Iroquois
The role of Iroquois was that they had solid type of government in which when the piligrims came, adn took some ideas but repressed others as woman rights. -
The American Revolution
In 1776 Locke´s ideas had spread through out the world. Thomas Jefferson referred to Locke, and wrote the Declaration of Independence. In 1789 a new constitution passed, but the privileges were not the same for white males in comparison for slaves. -
Role of Madison
Apported to the constitution all the enlightenment ideas and democaratic ideas were affected by the writing of the first American Constitution. -
Democracy in the U.S. 1789-1964
In the US, farmers of the Constitution considered universal suffrage. They limited the amount of public voting, by allowing the white men to choose their leaders. With the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments at the end of the Civil War, African-Americans won their freedom from slavery. The African-American won their right to vote. -
The French Revolution
Thirteen years after the American Revolution, the French overthrew their king in the hope of establishing a more democratic for of government. French revolutionaries believed that citizens held certain natural rights. Therse rights, articulatedin a document called 'The Rights of Man' (1789) were the "liberty, property, securtiy, and resistance to oppression." -
Toward a Democratic World
World War II the Nazi Germany tried to exterminate the Jews. After the war, the UN made its first order of business trying to find equality amongst all. "All humans beings are born free and equal.” -
The Roman Republic 509-27 a.C.
In 509 a.c ancient Rome nobles overthrew their king and founded a republic that lasted 500 years. In this republic, everybody had a voice. Even people who held no titles had a voice. The Roman system inspired the two-tiered structures of the British Parliament and the U.S. Congress. -
Ancient Athens (508-338) BC
Old Athens was recorded as one of the earliest democracy recorded. Monarchs or councils of wealthy citizens ruled Athens. In 508 BC Athenians got their first opportunity to determine the laws and policies of government.
