Posted on 06/02/2015 3:58:20 PM PDT by matginzac
The anniversary of the signing of the document that established the seeds of Freedom for the individual is this June 15th. It happened in 1215 at Runnymede. All freedom loving people need to honor this August occasion for being the seminal point in the history of the World. Great article. (No linkie because I don't know how to...) It's entitled "Eight Centuries of Liberty"
Is that the date before or after all the calendar changes that have occurred since then?
I’m sure Obunghole will make special note of it.
Just select/highlight the address and then cut N paste or copy N Paste..
I don’t know, but this statement sure threw me:
All freedom loving people need to honor this August occasion.
The calender only changed about 12 days, and that was in 1752, to rectify the accumulated error since the time of Julius Caesar. The error would have been less in 1215. Either way it was a June occasion, not an August occasion.
I have read it in modern English and it is a surprisingly good example of protection for ordinary free men.
Thank you John, you mother Elanor was one hot babe. Mods, you may want to fix the title.
Maybe they meant ‘august’. Poor editing.
I blame spell check.
I have NO idea but is it really important?
I would but WSJ is a fee related site so don’t want to frustrate those who don’t wish to pay....
*sigh*
The damn iPad auto-corrected it...it was meant to be “august occasion”.
Eleanor of Aquitane used her children in a most despicable way as did her hub, Henry II....
Thanks, hon...you bailed me out....I appreciate it...and it was worth it.
What did it say next to the signature?
Well, it means that today might not be the anniversary in spite of the headline. I was wondering if it was 800 years ago today or two weeks ago. It is a very historic anniversary, I would hate to have missed it.
The American Revolutionaries weren’t rejecting their identity as Englishmen; they were asserting it. As they saw it, George III was violating the “ancient constitution” just as King John and the Stuarts had done. It was therefore not just their right but their duty to resist, in the words of the delegates to the first Continental Congress in 1774, “as Englishmen our ancestors in like cases have usually done.”
I recommend a Rev War ping for this article.
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