Sentences with phrase «magna carta say»

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I say the new book should include the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, Psalms, Proverbs, writings from Confucious, Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, Pythagoras, Descartes, Jefferson etc so as to give a well rounded perspective of human history and beliefs.

, 22 it might well have been possible to turn to some earlier period in English history — Magna Carta, say, or the Protectorate under Cromwell — to provide a body of legitimating symbols for the new nation.

Nobody knows, he says, «what critical mass it would take to force our own Magna Carta on the American bishops».

«No free man [homo liber] 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 judgment of his equals or by the law of the land,» says Chapter 39 of Magna Carta.

The same may be said of Magna Carta — a work in progress, subject to change.

We say all this to remind ourselves, and to alert the generations that follow us, that this, our current British Constitution, endorsed by us, the peoples of the United Kingdom, in 2019, belongs to a long, changing history that goes back via the introduction of votes for all, the Bill of Rights of 1689, the Charter of the Forests and the Magna Carta, to the Norman Conquest of 1066 and its Doomsday Book.

«We must never cease», Churchill said, «to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English - speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence».

The manifesto goes on to say why Magna Carta is such a «beggarly thing», why it contains marks of «intolerable bondage».

The prime minister said the change could form part of a «new politics» modernising Britain's constitutional settlement as the country approaches the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015.

It is high time for action... As English voters go to the polls next year, the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, woe betide those politicians who seek to deny them a fair say in our democracy.

He also announced the setting up of what he hoped would be a cross party group to decide if a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities was needed, which he said should reach a conclusion by 2015 - the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta.

One says, «The fact that the Magna Carta was written in 1215 is, by law, the only thing you are required to know about it.»

«We just did the Magna Carta a couple of months ago,» John Davenport, CEO of Fiberstars said.

You say, «Indeed, nothing like a rambling 114 page digression on the taxies, walmart, the magna carta, international capitalism, prohibition and NDP health policy to really drill down on the issues around allowing law firms to adopt mainstream business structures.

The government's Magna Carta celebrations leave a bad taste in the mouths of legal aid campaigners, says Jon Robins

One commentator wrote that the MacCrate Report has become «the Magna Carta» for clinicians, 7 and another said that there is very little scholarship and very little discussion about the MacCrate Report outside of clinical and skills programs.8 The clinical movement, not incidentally, was well - represented in the task force, and that representation affected the findings.

The Magna Carta was endorsed way back in the 13th century in Britain by a king who realized that the public would no longer sit idlely by as the state routinely unilaterally levied and took their taxes whilst at the same time remained unanswerable to those same said taxpayers.