The article presents a speech by John G. Roberts, Chief Justice of the U.S., delivered at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, held on August 11, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts. Topics of the speech included the significance of the legal document Magna Carta and the role played by...
Why is Frederick the Great important? Why is Friedrich Engels important? What was the purpose of manorialism? Why were peasants not officially part of the feudal system? Why was the Magna Carta important? Why did the feudal system collapse?
Why is the Neolithic Revolution significant in world history? Why is Themistocles important to Greek history? Why was Albrecht Durer important? Why is the Bayeux Tapestry a significant work of art? Why are Huguenots important? Why is Christianity important to world history?
Since Global Tetrahedron bought this publication several months ago, there has been significant chatter about who our company is and what it represents. Much has been made of my past as a tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, human trafficker, and philanthropist. Some have questioned what interest...
like the Fall of Rome,the Black Plague, the signing of the Magna Carta, the break with Rome that occurred duringthe Reformation, andthe Glorious Revolution, had initially small but cumulatively profound effects over time. In a sense, it can be likened to Chaos Theory, where small changes in...
and the Wars of the Roses as the result of the failure of “the great Lancastrian experiment”—which was interpreted to be an elective kingship, governing through Parliament, and forming a natural stage of development between Magna Carta and the Reform Acts of the nineteenth century. Yet there...
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In1215,KingJohnwasforcedtosigntheMagnaCarta.TheMagnaCartaaimtolimitroyalpower.InBritishhistory,monarchyhadbeenadvancingwhilebeingconstrained,boththekingandnobilityhavecertainrightsandobligationstomaintainabalancedrelationship.itwasthemostsignificantearlyinfluenceontheextensivehistoricalprocessthatledtotheruleof6...
that I have one (and another), I am very happy with Visconti. There other pens I took time to buy but no other where I delayed so long for reasons of caution rather than time to research. The years (decades) I owned one pen at a time before buying a second remain more significan...