Monday, June 15, 2015

Magna Carta - 800 years old today.

Part One (of five) by Daniel Hannan - The Magna Carta — the text that makes us who we are:
We are about to mark the 800th anniversary of the greatest bargain ever struck: Magna Carta, sealed on June 15, 1215, the first document ever to raise the rules over the ruler.

Update: John Robson's excellent column

"The miraculous tale of the charter that made our free and prosperous society possible"

 

 

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 16, 2015 at 5:23:00 PM PDT

    The magna what? Gee the founders would be rollin in their graves if they seen what so called civil liberties have turned into.

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  2. PissedoffJune 16, 2015 at 7:45:00 PM PDT

    And there was me thinking it was Trudeaus' charter of stup, whoops freedoms that told us what our rights were as defined by the SCC (Stupid Court of Canada)

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