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After the French Revolution, Napoleon establishes a new set of laws known as the Napoleonic Code. Many countries still use the ideas from the Napoleonic code today.

In the spring of 1776 at least ninety declarations of independence from Great Britain were published by towns, counties, and even some of the colonies themselves.

Has there been any improvement in Australian Aboriginal rights since the UN condemned Australia's racism and descrimination record nearly ten years ago?

A summary of some indigenous statements and declarations for aboriginal intellectual and cultural property rights and ethical standards from around the world.

Four years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams wrote a document that contained many of the same ideas. The march toward independence was well on its way.

The actual causes of the American Revolution: Boston Port Act, Quebec Act; denial of trial by peers, peaceful assembly and royal charters are outlined in this protest.

Anti-Aboriginal propaganda, replete with graphic descriptions of child rape, have reached the UK. Let's critically examine words and images from an article in The Times.

Thomas Jefferson's efforts owed much to other writings of the colonial period yet his precise and beautiful prose resulted in a strong argument for American independence.

The history of the first amendment right of free speech goes back to Colonial America, before it was codified by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Bill of Rights.

Before the first Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the Civil War, the vision of founding father John Adams was put to the test in a Massachusetts courtroom.

Although the nation has celebrated July 4th since the end of the 18th Century, the holiday has been frequently transformed to address contemporary national issues.

Our founders based their commitment to a free press on their knowledge and personal experience with a society that strictly prohibited it.

Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are two Canadian writers whose work offended Muslims; they have paid a high financial and emotional price as a result.

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered a fiery speech to the colonial Virginia legislature, ending with the words "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Or did he?

A brief history of the Suffragists fight for the right to vote. Lydia Taft, Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony