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 ...
Why was William Penn given land in the middle colonies? Why was Valley Forge important to the American Revolution? Why is Amerigo Vespucci important? Why were slaves important to the American colonial economy? Why is the year 1787 significant to U.S. history?
The right to petition and habeas corpus and the concept of due process are derived from language in the Magna Carta, which also was a forerunner of Parliament, the Declaration of independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the U.S. Bill of Rights....
Why was the Constitutional Act of 1791 passed? Why was the 11th Amendment created? Why does the U.S. Constitution begin with "We the People"? Why didn't the Second Bill of Rights pass? Why was the addition of the Bill of Rights significant?
Significant changes kept coming as Kansas reached their second album with singer and keyboardist John Elefante, who'd replaced Walsh on 1982'sVinyl Confession. Violinist and co-founder Robbie Steinhardt was gone, dissatisfied with the Christian leanings of Elefante and Livgren that were dominating Ka...
thelimitofroyalpower In1215,KingJohnwasforcedtosigntheMagnaCarta.TheMagnaCartaaimtolimitroyalpower.InBritishhistory,monarchyhadbeenadvancingwhilebeingconstrained,boththekingandnobilityhavecertainrightsandobligationstomaintainabalancedrelationship.itwasthemostsignificantearlyinfluenceontheextensivehistoricalprocessthatledto...
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...
“I was very worried that during the duration of an eight-hour flight, something would happen to him in the cargo and he wouldn’t survive the trip,” Galin, 34, told The Post. So here’s the plot, which must have taken some surreptitious swapping; I don’t know how Galin did it:...
Germany was the leader of the second - and many argue most important - phase of the industrial revolution - the systematic application of science to industry. Germany dominated the chemical industry: the chemical industry in the U.S. and U.K. were so bad that during the first world war ...