Thursday, August 13, 2015

Happy Anniversary

800 years since the Magna Carta was adopted.  The Magna Carta was the foundation of our American system of laws and government, enshrining common law, the rights of the people to a voice in government, the beginning of the concept of separation of powers.

Original 1215 edition of Magna Carta, Cotton Augustus ii.106

http://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-an-introduction

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