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Magna Carta: Passions still running high in Runnymede
BBC News ^ | June 14, 2013 | Tanya Gupta

Posted on 06/15/2013 9:00:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Sir Robert Worcester wants to see the cornerstone of an interpretation centre laid in Runnymede in 2015.

Sir Robert Worcester wants to see the cornerstone of an interpretation centre laid in Runnymede in 2015

1 posted on 06/15/2013 9:00:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 06/15/2013 9:00:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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3 posted on 06/15/2013 9:06:43 PM PDT by narses
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4 posted on 06/15/2013 9:12:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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I wonder if the lack of interest has any connection of a dwindling Anglo population and massive infiltration of immigrants wanting to destroy the Anglo traditions?

Look for the same for the DOI and the Constitution at nation near you.

5 posted on 06/15/2013 10:46:56 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey NSA Goon watching FR... Suck this - > |=====>)
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To: SunkenCiv

Inalienable rights first put to pen and codified into law.


6 posted on 06/15/2013 11:26:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SunkenCiv

The nuns in the Catholic school in the Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport where I was brought up thought the event so important that 7th graders produced a play on the event for the entire school to watch.

Alas the school Immaculate Conception, and the parish no longer exist. But the church now re-named Holy Family still does run by a religious order. Point being it was a very significant event related to American history .


7 posted on 06/16/2013 3:11:39 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Under the Great Charter, you could not take a mans home to pay for a debt. This is incorporated into most state laws with Homestead provisions.

If he was a person who moved from place to place and had for instance a wagon and used it for business, you could not seize his way of making a living.

There are numerous clauses relating to civil rights.
Not easy to read though in the Old English!


8 posted on 06/16/2013 3:18:25 AM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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Here are a bunch of translations in modern english:
Magna Carta in Modern English
9 posted on 06/16/2013 4:20:40 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: SunkenCiv

Conservatives must note and learn that it was a conflict between the elites that gave us the Magna Carta as well as the US Constitution. The people had and always will have little to do with it.

Unless conservatives learn to not only leverage, but seek out the natural conflicts between elites we’ll just keep losing.


10 posted on 06/16/2013 4:42:06 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Thanks!


11 posted on 06/16/2013 5:40:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Vendome

Have you seen some of the discussions on the difference between unalienable and inalienable rights?


12 posted on 06/16/2013 6:56:14 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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No but, my phone typed inalienable and I just went with it.

Is there a thread?


13 posted on 06/16/2013 7:14:34 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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About 45 years ago, Britain passed some laws to take the place of the Magna Carta. On member of THE HOUSE LORDS spoke on how this would clear the laws of a lot of “JUNK!”

This created such an uproar in the HOUSE that some of the older members who spent their time sleeping during the sessions actually woke up to take part in the debate.


14 posted on 06/16/2013 8:09:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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and they still have crappy teeth and ridiculous accents.

Only part I like about England is they have all of Frances furniture from the many battles and wars over the centuries.


15 posted on 06/16/2013 8:25:13 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: catfish1957

I wonder if the lack of interest has any connection of a dwindling Anglo population and massive infiltration of immigrants wanting to destroy the Anglo traditions?

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16 posted on 06/16/2013 8:26:57 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Magna Carta is important to all nations with roots in Britain. Perhaps the committee should try fundraising overseas as well as within Britain.
17 posted on 06/16/2013 8:44:04 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Buy from Amazon.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I noticed your link to the MC that mentioned the Torah. It’s an interesting thing to think about. Surely, God’s Laws existed before being revealed to Moses? Idolatry, murder, adultery must have been wrong prior to the Bereshit and from the moment Adam and Eve departed the Garden practiced.


18 posted on 06/16/2013 10:38:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Vendome

I found this very interesting:

http://www.gemworld.com/USA-Unalienable.htm

Note that the drafts all stated “inalienable”, but the final versions all say, “unalienable”. Why the change? The important legal distinction between the words.

You can contract away inalienable rights, but unalienable rights can never be lost, even willfully. That’s one of those things that if taught for the last two generations could have kept us out of a lot of bad decisions and trouble.


19 posted on 06/16/2013 11:16:50 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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The Magna Carta was based on remnants of the Roman legal system, surviving in the Latin-literate clerical population of England.


20 posted on 06/16/2013 12:36:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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