In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, or in Latin, Magna Carta. Centuries later, America’s Founding Fathers took great inspiration from this medieval pact as they forged the nation’s founding documents—including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For 18th-century political thinkers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Magna Carta was a potent symbol of liberty and the natural rights of man against an oppressive or unjust government. The Founding Fathers’ reverence for Magna Carta had less to do with the actual text of the document, which is mired in medieval law and outdated customs, than what it represented—an ancient pact safeguarding individual liberty.
“For early Americans, Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence were verbal representations of what liberty was and what government should be—protecting people rather than oppressing them,” says John Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Much in the same way that for the past 100 years the Statue of Liberty has been a visual representation of freedom, liberty, prosperity and welcoming.”
When the First Continental Congress met in 1774 to draft a Declaration of Rights and Grievances against King George III, they asserted that the rights of the English colonists to life, liberty and property were guaranteed by “the principles of the English constitution,” a.k.a. Magna Carta. On the title page of the 1774 Journal of The Proceedings of The Continental Congress is an image of 12 arms grasping a column on whose base is written “Magna Carta.
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In Rwanda the cause of the genocide was “restoration of historical justice,” while in Bosnia it was more of a territorial and interfaith problem.
Explanation:
In the 1994 genocide, 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda. As a result of the three-year conflict in the former Yugoslavia, more than 100 thousand people died, and about two million were forced to leave their homes.
First, German and then Belgian colonists supported the power of the Tutsi. The reason was the origin of the Tutsi: Europeans reasoned that if this tribe used to live in northern Africa, it means that it is genetically closer to the Caucasian race and has superiority over the Hutus. The position of the Hutus was getting worse and more disenfranchised.
Simultaneously with the fall of the Soviet Union, many other communist regimes, including the Yugoslav one, shook. So, by 1991, Slovenia and Croatia withdrew from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. If the first of the republics resolved the issue of independence through a referendum, the second made a unilateral declaration of secession from Yugoslavia. Following the neighbors, Bosnia and Herzegovina decided to become independent, but the population of this republic was so heterogeneous that the proposed option did not suit everyone. The supporters of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina were mostly Bosnian Muslims, who made up almost half of the country's population, as well as Croat Catholics who did not want to follow the Orthodox Serbs, who made up about a third of the republic’s population.
Answer: A. A photograph of the West African sculpture.
Explanation: I did the test, and this would seem most plausible, because the West African tribe is not very important, a map is not important at all, and they never talked about comparing and contrasting.
It was primarily" "high mountain ranges" that was the physical barrier that helped separate ancient China from Southeast Asia, since these were very difficult to traverse. <span />
