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 it in the creation of representative government.RobertsTheHonorableJohnEBSCO_AspInsights...
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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...
While Toynbee’s definition covered the period between 1760 and 1840, it is more widely applied to the process of economic transformation from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy rather than a rigidly defined period. This is why some countries today are sometimes described as undergoing ...
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...
1.What’s the significance of the Great Charter?(1) Why and how was the Great Charter signed?(2) The Great Charter,or the Magna Carta is a most important document in English history.It is as important to the English people as the Declaration of Independence to the Americans.It has been...
Henry the VIII is known for his significant wars, but sometimes it wasn’t that significant and more irrational. Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French, the Scots, Gaelic lords of Ireland, rebels in his own realms, and even his own allies in the Netherlands. In 1543, Henry the...
There is a data problem here: by definition the only institutions that can exhibit continued growth are those still growing today - a limited selection of a historical time. Unfortunately there is no way to know whether our current inclusive institutions will continue to exhibit continued growth ...
It poses the important question of what afocus on the medieval might offer contemporary society, arguing that a significant dis-tinction should be drawn between‘usefulness’and‘relevance’. It contends that notonly does the medieval remain relevant but that that relevance is to be found in sur...