[britemp]

You are quite welcome to your opinion, but remember that without the British monarchy, the Magna Carta would never have been written, nor the concept of personal freedom for all men that so threatened the powers of mainland Europe well before the US existed. Magna Carta was after all, the direct basis for your constitution and had my Royal family not been disposed to conquer the world and colonise it it, you might well be speaking French now! ;-)

[GVnana]

without the British monarchy, the Magna Carta would never have been written, nor the concept of personal freedom for all men that so threatened the powers of mainland Europe well before the US existed. Magna Carta was after all, the direct basis for your constitution and had my Royal family not been disposed to conquer the world and colonise it it, you might well be speaking French now!

And without those Yankees, who didn't have the brains to write a consitution, you might well be speaking German now!

[A.J.Armitage]

You are quite welcome to your opinion, but remember that without the British monarchy, the Magna Carta would never have been written

Neither would the Declaration of Independence, and in pretty much the same sense.

[ZULU]

Magna Carta is just a small part of what we owe to our British heritage. Also English Common Law, trial by jury, and many of the other rights Americans take for granted.

Americans should remember that their founding fathers were really fighting for what they believed were their rights as Englishmen.