Sentences with phrase «magna carta documents»

The Magna Carta documents should at least get to Vancouver or Victoria at the very least in the west of our country.

Viewers will have the unique opportunity to see Magna Carta documents held in both London and Washington, D.C. and, to continue the learning experience, Discovery Education encourages schools to create their own Magna Carta for the 21st century.

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In that document I had laid out the concept of playing games using an ordinary TV set and proposed a lot of game ideas, thus making that document the closest thing to the Magna Carta of the home video - game industry.

They compelled him to sign a document called Magna Carta....

Magna Carta was, perhaps, the first legal document to establish the rights of citizens as opposed to those of kings in European history.

... I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to lead work to consolidate the existing unwritten, piecemeal conventions that government much of the way central government operates under our existing constitution into a single written document... And if we are to decide to have a written constitution, the time for its completion should be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in Runnymede in 1215.

Though it would be foolish to pretend a document drawn up by feudal barons contains the answers, the Magna Carta furnishes a rich tradition of resistance to arbitrary power to inspire and orientate contemporary struggles.

It instead has a set of basic documents, passed by Parlament (English Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, Habeas Corpus Act 1679 and Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949); which, in collection, function in constitutional capacity.

As we celebrate 800 years since the signing of the Magna Carta, many believe that it is time British values were clarified in a codified document for our age.

In 1215 John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, a document drafted by his barons that stated the king's will was not arbitrary and punishment could only be by the law of the land, not by decree.

There are also literary highlights that include Charles Dickens's handwritten draft of Nicholas Nickleby, along with Jane Austen's teenage writings with key historical documents that include: 2000 - year - old Oracle Bones from China and an original Magna Carta of 1215 — to name but a few.

One of history's most important documents was sealed during the Plantagenet era, the Magna Carta - giving birth to English democracy.

To mark 800 years since the sealing of this landmark document, the British Library hosts the largest ever exhibition devoted to the Magna Carta.

Fabricated by many hands, it replicates in stitch the entire Wikipedia article on Magna Carta as it appeared on the document's 799th anniversary.

It also includes early English documents, such as the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.

Materials span ancient Greece to contemporary times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta.

The document that produced that would be regarded by future generations with the same reverence as Magna Carta is today (even if it came to be known as Minor Carta!).

There could be no better way to impress your clients and empty your bank account than with your own original copy of the Magna Carta — perhaps the most important legal document in history.

Anyone thinking that the Magna Carta or the English Bill of Rights began the gradual civilization of the English legal system need only ask: what did those documents do for indigenous peoples in the western hemisphere?

The Magna Carta, along with its companion document from 1217 known as the Charter of the Forest, will be exhibited in Ottawa / Gatineau at the Canadian Museum of History from June 11 to July 26, 2015, before making stops in Winnipeg, Toronto and Edmonton.

Of course, the significance of Magna Carta can not be understood from a literal reading of a document originally written in Latin in a very different world.

It was a slow and steady process by which Magna Carta transitioned from legally binding document, to a symbolic one: «The first Statute Laws Revision Act of 1856 began the process of removing «obsolete» legislation from the British statute books.

And in so doing, we can remain true to the living document that is the Magna Carta.»