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Petition Timeline 1215 — Magna Carta, England, signed by King John of England 1628 — Petition of Right, England, signed by King Charles I 1689 — The Bill of Rights (or The Declaration of Right), England, signed by William and Mary 1774 — Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress 1776 — Declaration of Independence 1788 — Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia refuse to ratify the Constitution of the United States without amendments protecting individual 1789 — In the First Congress, Rep. James Madison of Virginia proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States 1790 — Congress submitted 12 amendments to the states for ratification 1791 — Ten of the 12 amendments adopted as Articles 1-X to the Constitution of the United States 1836 — House of Representatives passed a resolution to automatically table all petitions relating to slavery 1861 — Bill of Rights incorporated into the Constitution of the Confederate States of America 1894 — Coxey’s army marched from Ohio to Washington, D.C. 1940 — Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88 1957 — Monument erected at Runnymede, England, by American Bar Association 1963 — Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 1964 — Civil Rights Act passed 1966 — Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. 131 1969 — Gregory et al. v. City of Chicago, 394 U.S. 111 1980 — Brown v. Glines, 444 U.S. 348 1985 — McDonald
v. Smith, 472 U.S. 479
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