Sunday, 15 June 2008

15 June 1215

On this day seven hundred and ninety-three years ago at Runnymede King John assented to the Magna Carta:

“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”[1]

What is wrong with that?
[1] Text from British Library: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/translation/mc_trans.html

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