It figures that scumbag FDR would quote the Magna Carta that he was under no obligation to adhere to instead of the Constitution which like obola he tried to destroy.
There are several copies of the Magna Carta on display; I was fortunate to see one in Lincoln (England) last year. A great piece of history, asserting the rights of the people and limiting the power of the ruler, and something that needs to be more widely known in England and abroad.
One correction: Daniel Hannan is an MEP (Member of the European Parliament), and has (unfortunately) never been an MP. Hannan’s a former speechwriter for William Hague MP, and possibly one of the Conservative party’s best thinkers.
I just recently went to see it here in Houston. Although the rest of the display wasn’t much, the actual Magna Carta was very nice to see in person. Even though I couldn’t read it, just knowing what it says makes me proud that such men existed to get this written.
No man/woman is above the law. EVER!
I’m guessing it has something to do with leftist educationalists, who I have read of disparaging the MC as an elitist document between nobles and the king on who had the most right to exploit the poor.
“I went to see the Magna Carta when it was on display a few years ago,” British Conservative MP Daniel Hannan remembered in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week. “You can get right up to it: Nobody comes.”
I went to see it twice when an original copy was on display here in Houston. Both times I went the exhibit was packed. Then again, this is Texas, not England.
“Granted by King John in 1215 . . . .”
More like “wrested from.”