May that be the fate of all King Johns.
Put the editor and author into a 3rd world country or debtor’s prison for awhile and they may get the idea the the Magna Carta isn’t just words and a pretty good idea of why it was written...
Its the constructing end of things they abhor and are consequently terrible at doing.
This was not an uncommon chain of events during the Plantagenet dynasty.
But let me guess, at the NYT, you would not dare to challenge Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”.
Because it was version 1.0. Madison and Jefferson’s was a more recent and better version, but the game - Limit the Government - is really the only game in town.
Funny how the nit-pickers like to bring up slavery as the limitation in the original Constitution.
Like future generations aren’t going to criticize us for squinting at the 14th Amendment and seeing some inalienable right to murder your own child in the womb, or for a man to marry another man.
They are going to look at is and say, “Wow, things certainly went downhill from 1789 to 2015. No wonder the US eventually fell apart.”
What a ignoramus! Our laws and our advancement as a western democratized society have derived from the Magna Carta.
If was up to them, then would bring back in the fraudulent, anti-renascence feudalistic fraud.
I'm sure the New York Times view the Dark Ages as something to admire.
Enough already.
We really need to beat these leftwing statists down before they have us all skulking outside the walls of their palatial estates, rooting around in their trash for our supper.
Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes (2014); and Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries (2014). He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jeese.... it’s only time before someone decides to start blowing up NYT facilities..
Other NYC media outlets are not far behind....
The HATE for the United States there must be intense..
Well, that does it then! If Tom Ginsburg and the New York Times dismiss the Magna Carta as a discredited document based on flawed principles, hey, who’s to say otherwise?
As Gerald Celente has often said (referred to the NYT): ‘The toilet paper of record’.
Why is the Magna Carta so revered? Because during the 18th Century, many referred to the Magna Carta as the prototype of the changes needed to finally get away from the feudal system that in the end so hamstrung Europe.
Magna Carta sent a shockwave through British history. While King John failed to live up to its requirements British subjects never forgot it and used it repeatedly later in British history for various purposes. Further, our Constitution might be very different without the influence of MC.
This author is a typical Liberal... completely unaware of the fact that he lives in a country heavily influenced by Magana Carta while he urinates on it yelling it isn’t very important at all. Total imbecile.
While the NYT worships at the alter of Das Capital....
If the Magna Carta is/was a failure, why is it after 800 years we still celebrate it? Please name something else from 1215 we should better celebrate or from any year a century each way? Please JD Berkeley Law Degree, give us something better!
The idea that Constitutional Government took centuries to develop and that Magna Carta was a great step forward in that developement appears to escape this doyen of constitutional law.