[harpygoddess]

Of Magna Carta, Winston Churchill wrote in his "History of the English Speaking Peoples",

"The underlying idea of the sovereignty of law, long existent in feudal custom, was raised by it into a doctrine for the national State. And when in subsequent ages, the State, swollen with its own authority, has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the subject, it is to this doctrine that appeal has again and again been made, and never, as yet, without success."

[Ohioan]

And the most relevant demonstration of Jefferson's theses in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence,

Declaration Of Independence--With Study Guide

[MamaB]

I was reading some genealogy notes from a genealogy site. An ancestor was a surety for the Magna Carta and I do not know what that was. Does anyone?

[Slyfox]

FYI:

The English have what they call an "unwritten Constitution" and the Magna Carta is considered part of that.

Charters and laws signed and proclaimed would have a copies made and they would then send them to every county in England.

So, they don't have a constitution written like ours which was written in a matter of months, but instead they have a series of laws handed down and embedded with all the other laws collected.

[outofsalt]

Whole boneless beef tenderloin is on sale at Kroger. (Make sure they pay you for my click on your site.) I’m going to get some to have a Magna Cartaque!

[SES1066]

In 1938, one of the 4 'original' Magna Carta (Lincoln Cathedral) was sent to New York for display at the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 at the British Exhibition. With the start of WW2 and with the deadly U-Boat attacks, returning this precious document to England became a problem.

With the agreement between the British Government and the neutral US Government, the custody of this Magna Carta was given to the US Library of Congress and in November of 1939 it was put on display in the same hall as the originals of the US Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.

Following Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Magna Carta and the other irreplaceable documents in the possession of the Library of Congress were sent to the Gold Repository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In 1944, these items were returned to Washington DC and were again put on public viewing. It was not until 1946 that the Lincoln Cathedral Magna Carta was returned to its original owners in England.

The genealogists have determined that President George Washington is not only descended from King John I, but also from 6 of the rebellious Barons who signed the document.