How To Use Magna carta In A Sentence
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That document has been called the Magna Carta of our time.
Martha Burk: Let Eleanor Speak For Herself -- Fix The FDR Memorial
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The concept of due process dates back to 1215 A.D. and the Magna Carta, "No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Malcolm Friedberg: Fred: You Had It Right The First Time
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I wonder if Obama chose Greece and Britain when he was taking about exceptionalism as Greece was the Birthplace of Democracy, and Britain with the Magna Carta was the birthplace of many of the freedoms enshrined in the US constitution.
Prager on the 2010 election
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In an important sense, a document such as the Magna Carta or the map of the human genome belongs to everyone, as do humanity's artistic and architectural masterworks.
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She told her children that our country was the place to go in that it was wedded to the idea of due process which, I believe, first found expression in Magna Carta.
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The Magna Carta does not, as I understand it, curtail the sovereignty of the proper lawmaker to make what laws seem fit to him.
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Today, supreme court jurists and Washington politicians display no embarrassment in citing Magna Carta to support their case.
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If you need a refresher course, the Magna Carta is the first document to grant human rights.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007
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This time the ever-bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the ever-meandering trail of a thief who steals such priceless artifacts as the Magna Carta (nothing is made of that theft), the Shroud of Turin (Clouseau calls the pontiff Mr. Pope and detects that he's very spiritual) and the Pink Panther Diamond, whose re-disappearance -- it was stolen in the previous film too -- may have been required for the perfunctory script to fill 90 minutes.
'Into You' Is a Frayed Valentine
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Two more acts followed in 1861 and 1863, repealing hundreds of old laws; these acts and subsequent legislation abrogated much of Magna Carta.
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The image of Magna Carta being grudgingly given by a cornered tyrant still remains.
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In effect, the Confirmation included Magna Carta (and other charters), with the added provision that no nonfeudal levy could be laid by the crown without a parliamentary grant.
1272-1307
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Other candidates include the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta, the Domesday Book and the Isle of Lewis chessmen.
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ALFONSO III was obliged to make a sweeping regrant of the Privileges of Union (1287), the so-called Magna Carta of Aragon.
2. Aragon
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The magna carta gives every free man the right to be tried by his peer.
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I studied the required subjects of materials and methods, Latin - intermediate and advanced - and palaeography, as well as my chosen optional classes of English royal government and Magna Carta.
Doing a Master's program in medieval studies in Great Britain
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The Magna Carta is the oldest document seen as establishing the rule of common law.
Original Magna Carta and replica get a cleaning
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It is further notable that whilst some clauses of Magna Carta talk in terms of lords and tenants, others refer to free men generally.
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Sotheby's chairman David Redden called the Magna Carta "the birth certificate of freedom".
With Bush in their pocket, the Carlyle Group buys the "Birth Certificate of Democracy" --the Magna Carta
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The British Constitution, starting with Magna Carta of 1215 and expanded by subsequent Constitutional Acts guarantees us freedom from foreign or executive oppression or dictation.
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The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process.
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That document has been called the Magna Carta of our time.
Martha Burk: Let Eleanor Speak For Herself -- Fix The FDR Memorial
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Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds.
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Hence, the demand to disafforest in chapter 47 of the Magna Carta.
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In the fourteenth century, two parallel movements were under way to enforce Magna Carta's curbs on arbitrary royal authority.
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These laws they called Magna Carta, or the great charter; and they all came in armor, and took John by surprise at Windsor.
Young Folks' History of England
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According to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the so-called Magna Carta of spaceflight, the country where the object was launched is absolutely liable.
Space debris could be about to hit us with some weighty legal conundrums | Neil Rose
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Many people, especially those who write articles on this subject for Wikipedia, would say the Magna Carta is the most influential and important foundation of constitutional law.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen: June 15: King John Signs Magna Carta
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Trial by jury, even though it existed for time beyond record, became immovably locked into Australian constitutional law via the laws of England as a direct result of the Magna Carta 1215.
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They saw a copy of the Magna Carta, a proclamation signed by Elizabeth I, and treaties of battles fought centuries earlier.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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One of the most important documents in our constitutional history is the Magna Carta, a charter of rights extracted by the nobility from King John in 1215.
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Great William had made his effort to feudalize England) King John signed the Magna Carta, Feudalism proper gave way to landlordism -- the basis of
The American Empire
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From the Magna Carta, English princes and barons made it clear to the royal crown that they had rights and this ideal became rooted in English custom.
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This describes the enduring significance of the Magna Carta today.
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This Magna Carta thing is very weird because in the last 800 years we have had the Tudors, sheep stealing, Newgate prison, incredible illiberality.
