What we have lost. RIP Magna Carta.

JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting.

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38) In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.

+ (39) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

+ (40) To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

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Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign (i.e. 1215).




800 years of common law repealed by a frat boy from Texas. May God forgive you George W. Bush, you and the 109th Congress.

That is pretty deep. So we're back to Feudalism? How many actually know what that means?

note - Bush was born in Connecticut, spent some of his early years in Texas, then went to prestigious Establishment private schools in Massachusetts, then Yale, then Harvard (he was denied admission to the University of Texas). Then moved back to Texas, drank himself silly, was a failed businessman, lost a Congressional race, and became governor.

On another note, I saw an original copy of the Magna Carta in Lincoln in 1999.

the orginal was on tour...it was a long time ago...