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Simon de Montfort (1200-1265)
English statesman; advocated representative government; established an early form of representative...
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George Mason (1726-1792)
American political leader; drafted the Virginia Constitution and Declaration of Rights in 1776; was a...
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Maimonides (1135-1204)
Jewish philosopher of Cordova, Spain; compiled a systematic exposition of the whole of Jewish law as...
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Lycurgus (c. 900 B.C.)
Semimythical Greek legislator; traditional author of laws and institution of Sparta. C....
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Saint Louis (1214-1270)
King Louis IX of France; author of the Mise of Amiens, a judgment on a dispute between Henry III and...
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Justinian I (c. 483-565)
Byzantine emperor; appointed Tribonian to compile and consolidate the Roman legal code into the...
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Third President of the United States; wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia...
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Innocent III (1161-1216)
Medieval pope; student of canon and civil law, who, like Gregory IX, preserved the remnants of Roman...
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Hammurabi (fl. c. 1792-1750 B.C.)
King of Babylonia; author of the Code of Hammurabi, which is recognized in legal literature as one of...
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Dutch statesman; Advocate-General of Holland and Zeeland; author of On the Law of War and Peace, the...
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Gregory IX (c. 1147-1241)
Medieval pope; author of a compilation of decretals (i.e., authoritative decisions) on canon law;...
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Gaius (c. 110-180)
Roman jurist; author of numerous works, the most noted being the Institutes, a complete exposition of...
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Edward I (1239-1307)
King of England; founded the parliamentary constitution of England; eliminated the divisive political...
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Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683)
French finance minister and controller general under Louis XIV; codified commercial, maritime, and...
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Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
English jurist; professor of common law at Oxford; author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, which...
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Alfonso X, the "Wise" (1221-1284)
King of León and Castile; author of the Royal Code, a compilation of local legislation for general use;...
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U.S. Capitol Dome
For more information on the U.S. Capitol Dome visit: www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/dome.cfm. This official...
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Death of Columbus (1506)
After Queen Isabella's death in 1504, Columbus lost his influence at the court. As he lies on his death...
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