Examine carefully the primary and secondary evidence covered in this unit (inclu

Examine carefully the primary and secondary evidence covered in this unit (including Magna Carta from the Welcome Unit) to identify specific evidence that sheds light on the question of how rights have changed. Your writing assignment will be to provide a thesis statement and ten pieces of evidence in chronological order that answer the following question: what is the most important change in “rights” from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries?
1. Thesis statement. One to two sentences. Make sure your thesis statement answers the question decisively.
2. For the evidence, you will identify ten historical developments. These developments could take the shape of a specific event or be defined as a process playing out over a specific period of time. For example, the Protestant Reformation led to a century and a half of “wars of religion” and (depending on how you are using the evidence) could be either an event or a process. You must include an entry on the Declaration of Rights of 1688.
3. Organize your ten developments to place them in chronological order, from earliest to latest.
For each of the ten (10) developments you have identified, create a numbered entry that includes the following information.
a title.
the date, or date range.
a short, one sentence description of the event.
a short, one to three sentence description of why it is important in your thesis. If you are using a primary source, it is wholly appropriate to include a quotation.
a citation.
Here is an example of an entry:
1. The origin of “due process of law.” 1368. Parliament passed a statute that forbade the king’s council from examining and punishing people who have not first been taken to the king’s courts. The statute was necessary because the king and his advisors had prosecuted their enemies directly using the executive council. This statute established the principle that “no man be put to answer” a criminal charge, “except by due process of law,” which meant that it had to be conducted in the courts. This was an important step forward in separating the judicial from the executive power. Citation: Video lecture, Week 02, Lecture 01: the legacy of medieval law.
(In case you are curious, this bit of important information comes from the supplemental materials. You are welcome to use them, but you are not required to do so.)