I knew what this was regarding without even having to open it!

Rec

when it cost just 5 cents to mail a letter

had rights, simply because they were humans. That the power of the monarch and nobles over the hoi polloi was not unfettered or unlimited.

Most of the individual rights of our Bill of Rights echo the Magna Carta.

Cool beans.

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The charter first protected the rights and freedoms of society and established that the king was subject to the law.

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But why is a charter from 1215, which was declared null and void by the Pope within weeks of being written, which doesn't mention "trial by jury" or "habeas corpus" (the right not to be held indefinitely without trial), and which forbids any woman from accusing a man of murder or manslaughter, seen as the foundation of our liberties and our law?

At its heart is the idea that the law is not simply the whim of the king, or the government.

It is the great egalitarian legacy of Magna Carta, that all are equal under the law, and all can be held to account.

It is that idea that gave birth to so many of our rights and freedoms, to parliamentary democracy, fair trial, and a series of controls on the abuse of arbitrary power.

Now it isn't a king, but corporations that are claiming unfettered and unlimited control.

trying to give corporations the powers the TPP gives corporations.