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New York Times Op-Ed: Stop Revering the Magna Carta
New York Times ^
| 06/15/2015
| By TOM GINSBURG
Posted on 06/15/2015 11:46:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"...the barons sought to replace him. John avoided that fate by dying."May that be the fate of all King Johns.
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:48:16 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.s)
To: SeekAndFind
Put the editor and author into a 3rd world country or debtor’s prison for awhile and they may get the idea the the Magna Carta isn’t just words and a pretty good idea of why it was written...
To: SeekAndFind
Liberals are only happy when they are "deconstructing".
Its the constructing end of things they abhor and are consequently terrible at doing.
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:51:46 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: SeekAndFind
"John was a weak king who had squandered the royal fortune on a fruitless war with France. Continually raising taxes to pay for his European adventures, he provoked a revolt by his barons"
This was not an uncommon chain of events during the Plantagenet dynasty.
To: SeekAndFind
But let me guess, at the NYT, you would not dare to challenge Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”.
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:53:28 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: SeekAndFind
Because it was version 1.0. Madison and Jefferson’s was a more recent and better version, but the game - Limit the Government - is really the only game in town.
Funny how the nit-pickers like to bring up slavery as the limitation in the original Constitution.
Like future generations aren’t going to criticize us for squinting at the 14th Amendment and seeing some inalienable right to murder your own child in the womb, or for a man to marry another man.
They are going to look at is and say, “Wow, things certainly went downhill from 1789 to 2015. No wonder the US eventually fell apart.”
To: SeekAndFind
What a ignoramus! Our laws and our advancement as a western democratized society have derived from the Magna Carta.
To: jsanders2001
Nah, I’d vote for it be decreed they are guilty of sedition and punished accordingly.
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:55:19 AM PDT
by
VRWCarea51
(The original 1998 version)
To: KC_Conspirator
Why is the NYT still in existence?
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:57:48 AM PDT
by
Mollypitcher1
(I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
To: VRWCarea51
I can’t not agree with that...lol
To: SeekAndFind
Just a guess mind you, but I believe 800 years from now people will still know about the Magna Charta but not about Tom Ginsburg and any thing he said.
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posted on
06/15/2015 11:58:28 AM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
To: RinaseaofDs
> They are going to look at is and say, Wow, things certainly went downhill from 1789 to 2015. No wonder the US eventually fell apart.
I think you could make that much more accurate by saying “from 2008 to 2015” and saying “really downhill”
To: RinaseaofDs
I fear that future generations will be taught a warped and incomplete account of our Republic’s demise.
And that the history, contents, and purpose of our Constitution will be heinously misrepresented.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:06:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.s)
To: MCF
Exactly, it’s like 100 years from now saying Elvis was not successful because no one will be listening to him and he’s dead.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:07:15 PM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
To: SeekAndFind
Of course the Authoritarian Control Freaks HATE the Magana Carta. It is what empowers individuals.
If was up to them, then would bring back in the fraudulent, anti-renascence feudalistic fraud.
I'm sure the New York Times view the Dark Ages as something to admire.
To: SeekAndFind
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We get it, New York Times. You hate freedom.
Enough already.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:09:18 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We're 15% less evil than the Democrats!!!")
To: SeekAndFind
We really need to beat these leftwing statists down before they have us all skulking outside the walls of their palatial estates, rooting around in their trash for our supper.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:09:42 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Mollypitcher1
Why is the NYT still in existence?Because good men did nothing.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:09:55 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We're 15% less evil than the Democrats!!!")
To: SeekAndFind
Boy oh boy! Doesn't it just blow that the authors of the Magna Carta were never as advanced and enlightened as the publishers of New York Times? What a drag it must be, as a junior philosopher-king, for Li'l Tommy to be tasked with talking down to the rest of us unwashed folk! My heart just bleeds.
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posted on
06/15/2015 12:11:01 PM PDT
by
Trentamj
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