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.
Sadly in Canada, under Bill C-51, and the US Patriot Act, principles of the Magna Carta continue to be under attack.
Good post. Thanks
The loss of Aquitaine cost the English crown half its annual tax revenue.
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.
They should have cut John’s head off, or better yet beaten him to death with his crown.
The idea of limited government in the British Isles arose in part, from the Nordic concept of the “Thing”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
“A thing (Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic; þing; German, Dutch; ding; modern Scandinavian languages; ting) was the governing assembly of a Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers. Its meeting-place was called a thingstead.
The Anglo-Saxon folkmoot or folkmote (Old English — “folk meeting”, modern Norwegian; folkemøte) was analogous, the forerunner to the witenagemot and in some respects the precursor of the modern Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Today the term lives on in the English term husting, in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions of Nordic countries and, in the Manx form tyn, as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man.”
Other origins included the Roman Senate, dating to ancient Rome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate
“The senate was a political institution in the ancient Roman kingdom. The word senate derives from the Latin word senex, which means “old man”; the word thus means “assembly of elders”. The prehistoric Indo-Europeans who settled Italy in the centuries before the legendary founding of Rome in 753 BC[1] were structured into tribal communities,[2] and these communities often included an aristocratic board of tribal elders.[3]”
Queen Hillary wants to let everybody vote, whereas the ancients had the wisdom to limit voting to informed, landed elders and wisemen. As recently as the Mafia, they called them “wiseguys.”
DONT BLAME OBAMA AND HITLERY..... blame congress....
THEY SHOULD BE IMPEACHING OBAMA AND GOING AFTER HILLARY CRIMINALLY....
Informative article. Knew about it, and I didn’t know he wanted to get rid of it. Sound like our king and queen.
When the people of the Middle East have such an event regarding many of their self-appointed rulers you can expect that religious freedom from a government dictated to by the ministers of a religion in many Middle East nations may not be too many centuries off. Of course that achievement took how long in western nations after the Magna Carta?