Uno de los grandes avances que distintos países occidentales implementaron en su proceso de desarrollo social fue el de la redacción y aplicación de un texto jurídico y político destinado a convertirse en la ley máxima de un Estado.
Se presenta una serie de conferencias en las que se abordan los temas relacionados con los derechos, el constitucionalismo y la democracia, explorando el surgimiento histórico y la fundamentación filosófica de los derechos humanos.
El 25 de abril de 1974 el Movimiento de las Fuerzas Armadas (o Movimento das Forças Armadas) derribó el régimen fascista, coronando la larga resistencia del pueblo portugués e interpretando sus sentimiento profundos.
Originally published in May 1788, 'The Federalist Papers' is a series of letters to New York newspapers prompting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States by Alexander Hamilton, an American statesman, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation.
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation.
