Written constitutions hold value in legal systems, while unwritten constitutions are held simply by morals, and are sometimes valued in legal systems.
Heian Era: peaceful and encouraged art.
Shogunate Era: violent, unstable and
supported inequality among social classes.
I don't know what declaration you're talking about, but women would complain that they're deprived of rights to work, their rights as citizens, etc. They would work hard to get the rights they felt they were deprived of and deserved.
history allows us to observe and understand how people and societies behaved. like an example, we are able to evaluate war, even when a nation is at peace, by looking back at previous events. History provides us with the data that is used to create laws, or theories about various aspects of society.