Sentences with phrase «wrote magna carta»

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«realize the bible was written by people that thought the earth was flat» So was the Magna Carta, so was Aristotle's Metaphysics, so was The Art of War.

McGavran created the Institute of Church Growth first at Northwest Christian College in Eugene, Oregon, and wrote Understanding Church Growth, considered the «Magna Carta» of the movement.

Maitland wrote that Magna Carta was caught between «theoretical sanctity and practical insecurity.»

... 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.

800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the future of a written / unwritten constitution.

These days, we get Henry Porter writing about how he refused to eat in a curry house that happened to be within the same postcode as a CCTV camera, and stormed out in high dudgeon, scattering onion bhajis and asking outraged rhetorical questions about whether Magna Carta had died in vain in his wake.

Most of the coverage has focused on his plans for a referendum to reform the electoral system, but more radically he also announced his intention for the UK to have a written constitution by the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 2015.

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.»

It now has its own strikingly modern building up the road near St. Pancreas train station, where, in addition to books and manuscripts by Shakespeare, Wilde and Conrad, the free exhibit of treasures on display includes the 1225 reissue of the Magna Carta, original handwritten lyrics by Paul McCartney and John Lennon (including those to «A Hard Day's Night» scribbled on the back of one of young Julian's birthday cards), and Jane Austen's writing desk.

This post was written by Tom Leighton, vice president of Legal Editorial Operations at Thomson Reuters Washington DC was in the spotlight this past week as political, legal and academic leaders came together to kick off a year of Magna Carta celebrations.

This post was written by Robert Mccorquodale, marketing executive in the Legal UKI business of Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the strategic partner to the Global Law Summit, held this week in London to mark 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta.

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.

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.

The Magna Carta speaks to us from Medieval England, acknowledging, in writing, that no - one in society is above the law: not the King nor his subjects, not the government nor the governed.