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History again

June 15th many many years back the most important document in the World was signed in England. what was it ? why should PM Gordon Brown read it ? clue is its almost 800 years old.

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  • the magna carta??
  • Correct, the Magna Carta. As for why Gordon Brown should read it, there are quite a few clauses that you could point to, too many to mention in fact. Most of them refer to not being premitted to take ownership of a man's possessions without prior permission!
  • but King John ripped out the bits he didn't like as soon as the lords hit the M1
  • Magna carta it is. They is more than one Magna Carta. If you want to see there is one open to the public at the British Library.
    As for Gordon Brown reading it well one thing it does say is "no man shall be held with out charge". Taking away this fundemental right from us all should not have occured, the terrorists have won when the rights of all are affected.
    Strange that the only monument to the Magna carta was built by the yanks and paid for by them, how little we really care about our heritage. when President Kennedy visited the UK for the first time as President he visited Runneymede , he knew that the Magna carta was the first written laws for the " Free World".
  • Going back to our conversation about the Anglo-saxons yesterday GH they had written laws and rights before the Normans came.

    Magna Carta is important but a lot of it is about land and rent rights for the Norman aristocracy.


    Signed at quarter past noon if I remember rightly ; - )
  • Here's a history question:

    Who said "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?’'
  • tony hancock
  • The one and only Tony Hancock!

    Twelve Angry Men!
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