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reverence for Magna Carta had less to do with the actual text of the document, which is mired in medieval law and outdated customs, than what it represented—an ancient pact safeguarding individual liberty.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.
He was originally trying to find a area somewhere on the coast of the United States to try and find gold deposits and return wealth to the royalty of Portugal.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt :)
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On the 150th aniversarry of gaining of the Bill of Rights, Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 said that would be the Bill of Rights Day. :)
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Russia's victories in World War I led to Czar Nicholas's abdication and retirement. War on the western front devastated Russia's army, causing Czar Nicholas to abdicate. ... Czar Nicholas abdicated in favor of constitutional governments due to Russia's alliance with Britain and France.
Third parties influence the government by, by introducing new ideas and changing the outcome of certain elections.
