jum1801 wrote:
Excellent post, and needed. Thank you for it and for your devotion to your site. Stumbled upon it just tinkering around about Runnymede. I am impressed.
It heartens and encourages me, in this day of unprecedented (and unrealized by the majority of Americans I fear) erosion - hell, the outright destruction - of personal liberty in the US, to see sites by men and women such as yourself. Intelligent and educated persons who have sought out and studied the legal and philosophical roots of the American system. And almost across the board I find that those who are most well-grounded in and intellectually honest about the antecedents of the US Constitution (and the Constitution itself) have libertarian roots or leanings. But why should I be surprised?
My team has always tended to be the GOP. But beginning with the complete abandonment of conservative principles by so many Republicans in Congress during the GW Bush administrations, and, sad to say, by Bush himself, I am coming around to the view that there is no hope left that the GOP will ever champion libertarian-conservative philosophy. However, I don't think I'm alone when I see the grassroots Tea Parties spring up like mushrooms across the nation. Could it be that all those with conservative/libertarian leanings are, as a widespread movement, maybe even as a nation., inching ever closer to " going John Galt"? I can only hope.
Meanwhile it takes thousands of men and women like you to man the walls and light the signal fires. Thank you so very much for your past service, and your service now as a fighter for liberty. I know keeping up the site is hard, demanding work, and too often thankless and maybe even discouraging. I hope this little comment helps you feel the attitude of so many of the unseen fellow lover of liberty out there who you may somehow affect with your efforts.
Be well, be strong and may your efforts bear fruit.
It heartens and encourages me, in this day of unprecedented (and unrealized by the majority of Americans I fear) erosion - hell, the outright destruction - of personal liberty in the US, to see sites by men and women such as yourself. Intelligent and educated persons who have sought out and studied the legal and philosophical roots of the American system. And almost across the board I find that those who are most well-grounded in and intellectually honest about the antecedents of the US Constitution (and the Constitution itself) have libertarian roots or leanings. But why should I be surprised?
My team has always tended to be the GOP. But beginning with the complete abandonment of conservative principles by so many Republicans in Congress during the GW Bush administrations, and, sad to say, by Bush himself, I am coming around to the view that there is no hope left that the GOP will ever champion libertarian-conservative philosophy. However, I don't think I'm alone when I see the grassroots Tea Parties spring up like mushrooms across the nation. Could it be that all those with conservative/libertarian leanings are, as a widespread movement, maybe even as a nation., inching ever closer to " going John Galt"? I can only hope.
Meanwhile it takes thousands of men and women like you to man the walls and light the signal fires. Thank you so very much for your past service, and your service now as a fighter for liberty. I know keeping up the site is hard, demanding work, and too often thankless and maybe even discouraging. I hope this little comment helps you feel the attitude of so many of the unseen fellow lover of liberty out there who you may somehow affect with your efforts.
Be well, be strong and may your efforts bear fruit.
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Happy birthday, Magna Carta
Today marks the 794th anniversary of a monumental event in Western history. It was on this date in 1215 that King John I, under pressure from English barons, affixed his great seal to a document titled "Magna Carta" in the meadow at Runnymede. Large parts of it were actually copied word for word from the Charter of Liberties issued by King Henry I in 1100.
The Magna Carta marked the beginning of the English Parliament with the creation of a council to serve as a check on the monarch. Its influence can be seen in the U.S. Bill of Rights.
Perhaps the most important right to come out of the Magna Carta was the right of habeas corpus, which is receiving a battering in the United States these days as part of the so-called war on terror - er, excuse me, the overseas contingency operation.
The right is an important safeguard against arbitrary state action. The right of habeas corpus, also known as the Great Writ, allows a person to seek relief from unlawful detention. The Framers found it so important that it was one of the few rights actually enumerated in the body of the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 9. In fact, the courts late last year ordered the release of several prisoners from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on habeas corpus grounds.
King John I renounced the Magna Carta as soon as the barons left London, which started the First Barons' War. Pope Innocent III also rejected the agreement (part of the anger of the barons was fueled by the fact that John gave England to the pope as a papal territory and the king simply "rented it" for 1,000 marks per year) and release John from his oath to obey it. The barons eventually prevailed, thanks to the death of John.
After that, the Magna Carta was revised several times and the one that is commonly known as the Magna Carta today is a 1225 revision that is usually shown in the form of the Charter of 1297 when it was confirmed by King Edward I.
On a visit to the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., one can view one of the original copies of the 1297 document that is on permanent loan. I found the document as much worth viewing as the original Constitution display in the same building.
It is sometimes easy to forget that the battle for human liberty in the West did not begin in 18th century America. It has been a long process that has evolved through the centuries. We fight the same battle today. The Magna Carta was simply an early, but important, victory in the long road to creating a world free of tyranny.
I suspect many more battles will be necessary before we achieve our goal, if ever.
category | Liberty
author | Lucente