Posted on 06/15/2015 11:46:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Magna Carta wasn’t perfect in it’s inception, and the men who wrote it/enforced it weren’t perfect so it has no value. Typical liberal working to uproot the foundations of Western Civilization. So once you eliminate all respect for Christianity, marriage, the founding fathers, the Constitution and the Magna Carta, WITH WHAT DO YOU REPLACE THEM?
If the Magna Carta is/was a failure, why is it after 800 years we still celebrate it? Please name something else from 1215 we should better celebrate or from any year a century each way? Please JD Berkeley Law Degree, give us something better!
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Not a date from a hundred years either way, but an enormous date in history that should be recalled today is October 10th, 732.
It was the day Charles Martel, “the Hammer” threw the Muslims out of France at the battle of Tours.
The Magna Carta wasn’t perfect in it’s inception, and the men who wrote it/enforced it weren’t perfect so it has no value. Typical liberal working to uproot the foundations of Western Civilization. So once you eliminate all respect for Christianity, marriage, the founding fathers, the Constitution and the Magna Carta, WITH WHAT DO YOU REPLACE THEM?
ANY dictator, take your pick: Hitler, Mao, Mussolini,Pol Pot, Obama....ANY of the “great leaders of men” so revered by the left wing idiots and their Muslim Brotherhood cohorts who are driving the Western world to destruction.
Obviously (In my mind at least) I was referring to an equivalent legal event or other document since that was the 'expertise' of the NYT opinion writer. However, in line with your response, the naval battle of Lepanto (August 1571) is actually closer in time than Tours and it destroyed the Ottoman Naval power and was, with Vienna II (1683), the end of aggressive Ottoman Islam.
Obviously (In my mind at least) I was referring to an equivalent legal event or other document since that was the ‘expertise’ of the NYT opinion writer. However, in line with your response, the naval battle of Lepanto (August 1571) is actually closer in time than Tours and it destroyed the Ottoman Naval power and was, with Vienna II (1683), the end of aggressive Ottoman Islam.
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Excellent post. We need to pay attention to these occurrences in history and remind people that there is NO end to aggressive Islam by whatever name. Islam just keeps on trying.
“Why, then, is Magna Carta so revered?”
Because it is an early embodiment of the principle that no man is above the law, and that there are things the government is not allowed to do.
No mention of Divine Right of Kings -— like the Clinton’s seem to assume.
The Magna Carta put the first hole in that dogma. No wonder the Times dismisses it.
The second most inspired... The US Consitiution!!!
The third most... the Declaration of US Independence!!!
The fourth most... The Magna Carta!!!
I particularly like #8;
The Dutch here shall enjoy the liberty of their consciences in Divine Worship and church discipline.
The New York (Carlos) Slim-Slimes is pathetic.
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