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Title: What is your favorite part of your country's Magna Carta?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 26/08/2020 00:07:42

Curious somehow. I don't know.

Title: Re: What is your favorite part of your country's Magna Carta?
Post by: alancalverd on 26/08/2020 00:25:26

The fact that it exists is the most significant. From 1215 until 1979, England and eventually the United Kingdom, was ruled by some form of parliament rather than a dictator.

Trial by jury, habeas corpus and the prohibition of arbitrary taxation were significant innovations that have persisted.

Title: Re: What is your favorite part of your country's Magna Carta?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 26/08/2020 13:25:32

Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 26/08/2020 00:07:42

Curious somehow. I don't know.

The part where universal sufferage came out, or maybe the dont imprision and kill you without trial, but that may have been the far later Habeas Corpus .

Title: Re: What is your favorite part of your country's Magna Carta?
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/08/2020 15:50:36

What is your favorite part of your country's Magna Carta?
The joke about the signature.