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1 posted on 09/21/2015 11:16:47 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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OHH I love this author David Starsky he is saracatic


2 posted on 09/21/2015 11:17:43 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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There are a lot of popular misconceptions about the Magna Carta. It wasn’t really the precursor to the Bill of Rights, it was more in the nature of a fight among the Board of Directors of a corporation.


3 posted on 09/21/2015 11:24:55 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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Magna Carta was a living embodiment of the Jeffersonian concept of the purpose & origins of legitimate Government, and the right to rise against Government that violated those purposes, as set forth in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.


4 posted on 09/21/2015 11:32:28 AM PDT by Ohioan
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It’s the precursor to the Constitution: a contract.
Once government is defined by contract anything is possible, though (democratic) feudalism is the nearly universal selection.


17 posted on 09/21/2015 1:53:50 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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I think the overlooked truth is that Magna Carta for the first time ever acknowledged that the King - hitherto placed on the throne by the Grace of God - was answerable to the Law like any man. That was revolutionary, no?
18 posted on 09/21/2015 2:01:00 PM PDT by Riflema
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