A Story Outline of Evolution 



provides a punishment for those who violate these rights. 

 In Babylon and Assyria the right of slaves to hold, use and 

 enjoy private property was recognized and regulated by 

 law. 



Political rights were the most reluctantly granted of all. 

 Some rulers of vision with spirits of altruism, had, from 

 time to time, granted their subjects certain civil and political 

 rights and these rights would, in turn, be taken away by 

 some future tyrannical ruler. These rulers were jealous 

 of their power and sought to keep their subjects in a state 

 of complete political subjugation. But as intelligence among 

 the common people increased, the bud of liberty and free- 

 dom had swollen until the flower was bursting the bud. The 

 people had begun to assert their rights and to demand that 

 they be given a charter guaranteeing these rights to them. 



England was ruled from 1190 to 12 16 A. D. by King 

 John, an illiterate, tyrannical, mean and cruel king. His 

 tyrannical rule caused a revolt among his subjects which 

 resulted in the granting of the first great charter of guaran- 

 teed liberty that humanity had ever experienced. The 

 barons of England met and formulated their complaints and 

 demanded redress of these grievances. It was not a request, 

 but instead, it was a stern demand. At first the king refused, 

 then procrastinated, and when he was faced with an army of 

 his subjects ready to do battle to enforce their demands, he 

 yielded and signed the Magna Charta in June, 12 15. 



He was furious and like a caged savage animal he tore 

 his hair, gnashed his teeth, rolled his eyes, gnawed sticks 

 and twigs, but there in a sheep pasture at Runnemede, on 

 an island in the Thames River, he was forced to sign the 



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