All human lives matter!
Civil liberties matter!
Political rights matter!
Democracy matters!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
It is still a long way to go before the words “all men” uttered by President Lincoln more than 150 years ago can truly mean “all humans”!!!
Just laws of a nation must limit the powers of the government against the people.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
James Madison
The road to just laws of a nation can be long and arduous. The fight for civil liberties and political rights for the people in UK & US started no later than 800 years ago, and is still ongoing.
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – […] that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
| Year | Some UK & US Civil Liberty Laws |
| 1215 | UK – Magna Carta |
| 1628 | UK – Petition of Rights |
| 1679 | UK – Habeas Corpus Act |
| 1689 | UK – Bill of Rights |
| 1776 | US – Declaration of Independence |
| 1777 | US – Articles of Confederation |
| 1787 | US – Constitution |
| 1791 | US – Bill of Rights |
| 1865 | US – 13th Amendment |
| 1868 | US – 14th Amendment |
| 1920 | US – 19th Amendment |
| 1968 | US – Civil Rights Act |