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- 1071: Pierre Trudeau
- ... twenty years...unfortunately, he was unable to complete the affirmation of his ideology into the French Canadian scope and thus Canada today is contemplating the outcome of another constitutional referendum. His failure to absolve the constitution of any future repercussions with the masses should not be viewed as a political error, but as an ideological truth which he exhibited since 1965 (the addition of the "notwithstanding" clause). Trudeau's book covers ...
- 1072: Karl Marx
- ... was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His mother, Henrietta, was originally from Holland and never became a German at heart, not even learning to speak the ...
- 1073: Monarchical Power In England
- ... private privileges and exemptions.' (4). It was the threat of these changes that caused Henry II's renowned clash with his Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, who was opposed specifically to a clause in the Constitution of Clarendon (1164). The clause stated that criminal, ecclesiastical clerks who had been found guilty by clerical courts should be handed over to secular authorities for punishment as ecclesiastical courts merely demoted the accused to ...
- 1074: The Period After The French Revolution
- ... of Judges and a jury for criminal cases; an accused person was considered innocent until proven guilty and was guaranteed counsel. Most of these ideas were used after the ratification of the United States Constitution. During the Consulate, Napoleon Bonaparte carried through a series of reforms that were begun during the Revolution. He established the Bank of France, which has continued to function, more or less unchanged, up to the ...
- 1075: The French and English Revolutions
- ... men to intendants. Pretty soon there were oaths and things for Louis to sign everywhere. Oaths such as the "Tennis Court Oath", and the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen", and the "Constitution of 1791." Two effects of the Revolution were, change the voting by head, giving the third estate an advantage because they had as many people as the first and second estates, and the beheading of ...
- 1076: The Treaty of Trianon
- ... deal with rampant discrimination. The new states were calling themselves nation-states in which there was little or no room for minorities. In nearly every aspect the Hungarians were now inferior as regards to the constitution, political establishment, public administration, and legislation. There were minority rights outlined in the Treaty of Trianon, but these were largely ignored or abused. Hungary even made appeals to international forums describing the abuse of Hungarian ...
- 1077: The Byzantine Empire
- ... until scholars named it. The people of that time were not thought of as Byzantines but as Romans who lived a Roman lifestyle. Byzantine had been started and ruled by an emperor without any formal constitution. It slowly formed a similar establishment of late Roman institutions. Byzantine followed the Romans orthodox Christianity as well. The predominant language of this era was Greek, although some subjects spoke Latin, Coptic, and Armenian. (Great ...
- 1078: The Byzantine Empire
- ... until scholars named it. The people of that time were not thought of as Byzantines but as Romans who lived a Roman lifestyle. Byzantine had been started and ruled by an emperor without any formal constitution. It slowly formed a similar establishment of late Roman institutions. Byzantine followed the Romans orthodox Christianity as well. The predominant language of this era was Greek, although some subjects spoke Latin, Coptic, and Armenian. (Great ...
- 1079: Ancient Greece
- ... more despicable. Hippias, who survived Hipparchus, was expelled by a popular uprising in 510 BC. In the resulting political strife, the supporters of democracy, under the statesman Cleisthenes, won a complete victory, and a new constitution, based on democratic principles, took effect about 502 BC. The beginning of democratic rule was the dawn of the greatest period of Athenian history and, to me personally this signifies the end of Ancient Greece ...
- 1080: The Yugoslavian Conflict
- ... great pains to identify vocabulary that would highlight the differences rather than the similarities. War finally broke out in Yugoslavia on June 25 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia proclaimed their independence and sovereignty, suspending the constitution of Yugoslavia and federal legislation on their territories. The first thing that Slovenian state did was to take over control of their borders, removing Yugoslavian border posts and replaced them with Slovenia Republic posts. Federal ...
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