INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
DECLINE OF FEUDALISM
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The Model Parliament
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The Magna Carta
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Feudalism
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The Plague
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Detailed explanation-1: -Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be thought of as human rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter, ” on June 15, 1215.
Detailed explanation-4: -Magna Carta originated as an unsuccessful attempt to achieve peace between royalist and rebel factions in 1215, as part of the events leading to the outbreak of the First Barons’ War. England was ruled by King John, the third of the Angevin kings.
Detailed explanation-5: -Part III of the Constitution is described as the Magna Carta of India. It contains a very long and comprehensive list of ‘justiciable’ fundamental rights.