Posted on 06/08/2015 10:25:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
All to lead to the modern day.
Disarmed citizens about to be ruled by sharia law...
It took another three centuries and two bloody civil wars before England got a king and queen equal to John in tyranny and a bit more than a century after that before they had to do the ultimate check and balance on another despotic king by beheading him.
They were showing documtnary on my local PBS station by Dan Jones he is good author he was talking about Magna Carta
This document was a fraud. It did nothing to advance transgender rights or prevent global warming.
Magna Carta is the basus of our own documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as the founding documents of the Republic.
...to be followed by 800 years of unlimited government
It is an historic answer to those contemporary Academics, who have sought to dismiss Jefferson's postulates as purely theoretical; whereas, it is the claims of the Left to Utilitarian power, to force their fantasy, egalitarian wish lists, on the rest of us, that are purely theoretical. Jefferson was arguing from experience.
William Flax
Whatever happened to June 15, 1215?
Is the author stating that the Constitution, as we know it, is dead?...................
Very nice. Thanks for posting.
I went to England last year and got to see an original copy on display at the British Library in London. One fascinating story about how they were able to acquire one of their copies took place back some two or three hundred years ago. Somebody cleaning out an old house at the time went into some nook or cranny and out popped this copy that they were able to figure that it dated back to 1215 and that apparently copies of the Magna Carta were sent to locations across England at the time of its signing.
800 years of limited government. Well it was nice while it lasted.
Sadly in Canada, under Bill C-51, and the US Patriot Act, principles of the Magna Carta continue to be under attack.
It didn't do much for the 'ordinary citizen' despite what the author of this article says. The best put down of this document is to be found in "1066 and All That" by Sellar and Yeatman. Several articles of the MC are followed by the statement "except the Common People." In reality, it was a charter for the Ruling Class against the king, nothing more.
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates. Extremely funny, but you have to know the real history to realize how cleverly screwed up the history is in this book.
Yup. Something somewhere went wrong. King George the III was the last British King to try to usurp power from the people (Parliament). Since then it is the Parliament itself, including the political system in the US, that has been corrupted. Perhaps the anti-Federalists were right.
Good post. Thanks
The loss of Aquitaine cost the English crown half its annual tax revenue.
That's true, but it was part of a process that eventually lead to the Declaration of Independence.
King John had about the same respect for Magna Carta (Great Charter) as Obama has for our Constitution. Hopefully the many parallels between the two men’s misrule and many failures will continue and history will treat his eight years with the same regard as John’s seventeen.
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