Sentences with phrase «magna carta stated»

Clause 35 of Magna Carta stated, «Let there be throughout our kingdom a single measure for wine and a single measure for ale and a single measure for corn, namely, the London quarter.

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Carlyle Group co-founder and Magna Carta owner David Rubenstein, right, and Archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero, unveil the 1297 Magna Carta in its new state - of - the - art encasement at the National Archives in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2011.

The issues around state power and surveillance raised by Edward Snowden's revelations should be an important theme in the upcoming general election, while the symbolic double anniversary of Magna Carta (aged 800) and the web (aged 25) offers an opportunity for critical reflection on how to upgrade fundamental liberties in response to new threats and re-imagine how technology can serve the common good.

We want to make Magna Carta 2.0 a call to people and organisations of all political persuasions across the country to put a stop to the threats to our liberty, clean up the way we are governed and ensure that the state respects the people.

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.

By the 1890s he had brought most of his relatives to the United States and married Anna Davis, a linguist and historian from Boston who was a descendant of Magna Carta signers and 17th - century New England settlers.

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.