Monday, December 1, 2008
The Petition of Right
Reading the Petition of Right, makes me realized how much of tyranny we've read about throught history from anyone who was in position to have power over the people. From the start of this class to now and even some history we haven't disucussed in class we see that power turns into greed. The Petition of Right reminds of the Bill of Rights. Both of these documents try to give the free people the right and power to govern the quality of their own lives without the interference or fear of the government or king. The Petition of Rights could have the set the ground work for the free people, to think for themselves and relieve themselves of persecution and migrate to the country we live in today, which in sense uses the same blue print out government that Parliment used for their King.
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I don't know if I would agree that "all" powers were corrupt from earlier time periods. It is the corrupt ones we have been hearing about. Somewhat like the evening news - we hear about the criminals and rarely about the daily good doers in every segment of society. We hear about the corrupt CEO's of our time - but few know about ones like the CEO of COSTCO who has an extremely small salary in comparison with very little perks so that more goes back to the employees.
Bad news sells.
When compared the Petition of Right(s) and the Bill of right(s) are similar in context.
Although, I must say the United States Bill of Rights is a lot easier to read and understand than the Petition of Right.
I undertand that not all powers are corrupt, i was mostly referring to periods of history where tyranny controlled how the people were run.
The bill of rights is defintley easier to understand, but the petition of rights gives us blueprint of what is involved to fight the persecution of tyranny.
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