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  2. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    ' old rule ') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [1] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [2] and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic. [3] "Ancien régime" is now a common metaphor for "a system or mode no ...

  3. Political institutions of ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented. [1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8).

  4. Quebec Act - Wikipedia

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    The Quebec Act 1774 (French: Acte de Québec de 1774) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.One of the principal components of the act was the expansion of the province's territory to take over part of the Indian Reserve, including much of what is now southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts ...

  5. Constitutional history - Wikipedia

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    It used the concept of a mixed constitution going back to Aristotle, and its evolution. [15] In Cicero's view an "ancestral constitution", an organic development based on the mos maiorum, had been ruptured some eighty years before, by the Gracchi and their reforms. [16] Category:Ancient Greek constitutions

  6. History of the Constitution of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Empire's constitution emerged as a transformation of the late Roman Republic's constitution, utilising various late republican precedents, to legitimise the granting of incredible legal powers to one man and the centralisation of legal powers into bodies which that man controlled.

  7. First Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution.

  8. Constitution of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of the Roman Empire was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent. [1] After the fall of the Roman Republic , the constitutional balance of power shifted from the Roman Senate to the Roman Emperor .

  9. Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

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    In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, the British government instated the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts in the colonies. [1] There were five Acts within the Intolerable Acts; the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. [1]