Examples of Constitution of Medina in the following topics:
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- Upon his arrival in Medina, Muhammad unified the tribes by drafting the Constitution of Medina, which was a formal agreement between Muhammad and all of the significant tribes and families of Medina, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, and pagans.
- This constitution instituted rights and responsibilities and united the different Medina communities into the first Islamic state, the Ummah.
- An important feature of the Constitution of Medina is the redefinition of ties between Muslims.
- This was an important event in the development of the small group of Muslims in Medina to the larger Muslim community and empire.
- Abu Sufyan, the leader of the ruling Quraysh tribe, gathered an army of 3,000 men and set out for an attack on Medina.
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- The Constitution of Medina, also known as the Charter of Medina, was drafted by Muhammad in 622.
- It constituted a formal agreement between Muhammad and all of the significant tribes and families of Yathrib (later known as Medina), including Muslims, Jews, and pagans.
- The precise dating of the Constitution of Medina remains debated, but generally scholars agree it was written shortly after the hijra (622).
- The Constitution established the security of the community, religious freedoms, the role of Medina as a haram or sacred place (barring all violence and weapons), the security of women, stable tribal relations within Medina, a tax system for supporting the community in times of conflict, parameters for exogenous political alliances, a system for granting protection of individuals, a judicial system for resolving disputes, and also regulated the paying of blood money (the payment between families or tribes for the slaying of an individual in lieu of lex talionis).
- Medina was the power base of Islam in its first century.
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- A delegation from Medina, consisting of the representatives of the twelve important clans of Medina, invited Muhammad as a neutral outsider to serve as the chief arbitrator for the entire community.
- Muhammad instructed his followers to emigrate to Medina until nearly all of them left Mecca.
- Among the first things Muhammad did to ease the longstanding grievances among the tribes of Medina was draft a document known as the Constitution of Medina, "establishing a kind of alliance or federation" among the eight Medinan tribes and Muslim emigrants from Mecca.
- The community defined in the Constitution of Medina, Ummah, had a religious outlook, also shaped by practical considerations, and substantially preserved the legal forms of the old Arab tribes.
- This was followed by the general acceptance of Islam by the pagan population of Medina, with some exceptions.
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- Cities like Mecca and Medina acted as important centers of trade and religion in pre-Islamic Arabia.
- Along with the port of Jidda, Medina and Mecca thrived through years of pilgrimage.
- Medina is celebrated for containing the mosque of Muhammad.
- Medina is 210 miles (340 km) north of Mecca and about 120 miles (190 km) from the Red Sea coast.
- According to Ibn Ishaq, the local pagan Arab tribes, the Muslim Muhajirun from Mecca, the local Muslims (Ansar), and the Jews of the area signed an agreement, the Constitution of Medina, which committed all parties to mutual cooperation under the leadership of Muhammad.
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- One of the major cultures that dominated the Arabian Peninsula just before the rise of Islam was that of the nomadic Bedouin people.
- The first mention of Jews in the areas of modern-day Saudi Arabia dates back, by some accounts, to the time of the First Temple.
- Immigration to the Arabian Peninsula began in earnest in the 2nd century CE, and by the 6th and 7th centuries there was a considerable Jewish population in Hejaz, mostly in and around Medina.
- Before the rise of Islam, there were three main Jewish tribes in the city of Medina: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza.
- Approximate locations of some of the important tribes and Empire of the Arabian Peninsula before the dawn of Islam.
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- Article Six of the United States Constitution establishes the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land.
- All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
- This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
- The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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- Typically, state constitutions address a wide array of issues deemed by the states to be of sufficient importance to be included in the constitution rather than in an ordinary statute.
- Many state constitutions, unlike the federal constitution, also begin with an invocation of God.
- 1st Constitution of the Territory of American Samoa, 1 July 1967.
- 1st Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 3 November 1986.
- 1st Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 25 July 1952.
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- To protect the Constitution from hasty alteration, the framers of the Constitution wrote Article V.
- However, the Framers of the Constitution worried that too many changes would harm the democratic process.
- Thus it was proved that a constitutional amendment can be stopped by one-third of either chamber of Congress or one-fourth of state legislatures.
- The Great Compromise (also called the Connecticut Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
- Thus, Article V of the US Constitution, ratified in 1788, prohibited any constitutional amendments before 1808 which would affect the foreign slave trade, the tax on slave trade, or the direct taxation on provisions of the constitution.
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- Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution may be altered; altering the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments and subsequent ratification.
- The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
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- The Constitution went into effect by the summer of 1788 after the following states had ratified the Constitution: Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, and New York.
- New York and Virginia ratified the Constitution under the condition that a Bill of Rights be added.
- North Carolina ratified the Constitution in November of 1789, followed by Rhode Island in May 1790.
- Amendment 10: Limits the powers of the federal government to only those specifically granted by the constitution.
- Discuss differences among the states on the question of ratifying the Constitution