Examples of Assembly of Freemen in the following topics:
-
- Assemblies were elected and were called the House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
- The colonial Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
- Taxes and government budgets originated in the Assembly.
- The Massachusetts Assembly suggested a meeting of all colonies to work for the repeal of offensive Acts, and all but four colonies were represented.
- The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.
-
- The governor had the power of absolute veto and could prorogue (i.e., delay) and dissolve the assembly at any time.
- The colonial assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
- Assemblies were made up of representatives elected by the freeholders and planters (landowners) of the province.
- In practice, this was not always achieved, because many of the provincial assemblies sought to expand their powers and limit those of the governor and crown.
- The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.
-
- Each colony had a system of governance including a governor, a council of officials appointed by the governor, and an elected assembly.
- Enfranchised voters elected the General Assembly; by 1750, most free men of property could vote.
- The Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
- The colonial assemblies' official role was to make all local laws and ordinances, ensuring that they were consistent with the laws of England.
- However, it is important to note that these assemblies were mostly representative of the privileged and mercantile classes.
-
- By 1829, 60 percent of the state's white men were ineligible to vote (as were all women and most non-white men), meaning that the electorate of Rhode Island was made up of only 40 percent of the state's white men.
- The charter lacked a procedure for amendment, and the Rhode Island General Assembly had consistently failed to liberalize the constitution by extending voting rights, enacting a bill of rights, or reapportioning the legislature.
- At the same time, the state's General Assembly formed a rival convention and drafted the Freemen's Constitution, which made some concessions to democratic demands.
- Late in that year, the two constitutions were voted on, with the Freemen's Constitution being defeated in the legislature largely by Dorr supporters.
- In September of 1842, a session of the Rhode Island General Assembly met in Newport and framed a new state constitution, which was ratified by the old, limited electorate and proclaimed by Governor King on January 23, 1843.
-
- Rome was ruled by seven kings over this period of time,
and each of their reigns were characterized by
the personality of the ruler in question.
- Despite this, Roman kings, with the exception of Romulus, were
elected by citizens of Rome who occupied the Curiate Assembly.
- After founding and naming Rome, as the story goes, he permitted men of all classes to come to Rome as citizens, including slaves and freemen, without distinction.
- The doors of the temple remained closed for the balance of his reign.
- Explain the significance of the Seven Kings of Rome to Roman culture
-
- The Crises of the Roman Republic refers to an extended period of political instability and social unrest that culminated in the demise of the Roman Republic, and the advent of the Roman Empire from about 134 BCE-44 BCE.
- The exact dates of this period of crisis are unclear or are in dispute from scholar to scholar.
- They wished to limit the power of the popular assemblies and the
Tribune of the Plebeians, and to extend the power of the Senate, which was
viewed as more dedicated to the interests of the aristocrats.
- In particular,
they were concerned with the rise of individual generals, who, backed by the
tribunate, the assemblies, and their own soldiers, could shift power from the
Senate and aristocracy.
- This system consisted of noble families of the senatorial rank (patricians), the knight or equestrian class, citizens (grouped into two or three classes
of self-governing allies of Rome: landowners; and plebs, or tenant
freemen, depending on the time period), non-citizens who lived outside of southwestern Italy, and at the bottom, slaves.
-
- On June 17, with the failure of efforts to
reconcile the three estates,
the Third Estate declared themselves redefined as the
National Assembly, an assembly not of the estates, but of the people.
- The Assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on July 9 (it is common to refer to the body even after that as the National Assembly or the Constituent Assembly)
and began to function as a governing body and a constitution-drafter.
- Following the storming of the Bastille on July 14, the National Assembly became the effective government of France.
- On August 26, 1789, the Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which comprised a statement of principles rather than a constitution with legal effect.
- In an attempt to address the financial crisis, the Assembly declared, on November 2, 1789, that the property of the Church was "at the disposal of the nation."
-
- The Legislative Assembly first met on October 1, 1791 under the Constitution of 1791.
- The rightists within the assembly consisted of about 260 Feuillants
(constitutional monarchists), whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the Assembly, because of their ineligibility for re-election.
- Louis vetoed two decrees proposed in November: that the émigrés assembled on the frontiers should be liable to the penalties of death and confiscation if they remained so assembled and that every non-juring clergyman must take the civic oath on pain of losing his pension and, if any troubles broke out, of being deported.
- When the king formed a new cabinet mostly of Feuillants, this widened the breach between the king on the one hand and the Assembly and the majority of the common people of Paris on the other.
- The royal family became prisoners and a rump session of the Legislative Assembly suspended the monarchy.
-
- The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems but
it ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
- An Assembly of Notables was a group of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries convened by the King of France on extraordinary occasions to consult on matters of state.
- On June 17, with the failure of efforts to reconcile the three estates, the Communes - or the Commons, as the Third Estate called itself now - declared themselves redefined as the National Assembly, an assembly not of the estates, but of the people.
- Two days later, removed from the tennis court as well, the Assembly met in the Church of Saint Louis, where the majority of the representatives of the clergy joined them.
- After a failed attempt to keep the three estates separate, that part of the deputies of the nobles who still stood apart joined the National Assembly at the request of the King.
-
- Freedom of Assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend common interests .
- Freedom of assembly and freedom of association may be used to distinguish between the freedom to assemble in public places and the freedom of joining an association, but both are recognized as rights under the First Amendment's provision on freedom of assembly.
- The right of assembly was originally distinguished from the right to petition.
- Cruikshank (1875), the Supreme Court held that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States. " Justice Waite's opinion for the Court carefully distinguished the right to peaceably assemble as a secondary right, while the right to petition was labeled to be a primary right.
- The right to petition is generally concerned with expression directed to the government seeking redress of a grievance, while the right to assemble is speaking more so to the right of Americans to gather together.