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To: agere_contra
They must have done something really bad. Perhaps they sucked up to John and screwed the barons.

There is much that is quaint and at times incomprehensible to us in this document. It reflects a lost age. On the other hand, the parts about Trial by Jury and not punishing someone without following the law of the land, and no taxation without the approval of Parliament are legal ideas we still hold dear to day.

But the most important part of the document, from my perspective, is the fact that the SUBJECTS of a monarch, for the FIRST TIME in relatively recent history, took an abusive tyrant to task and forced him to recognize their rights.

9 posted on 06/12/2009 7:27:41 AM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: ZULU
It was preceded by this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Liberties
12 posted on 06/12/2009 9:22:42 AM PDT by Borges
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