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Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada

Carolyn Harris
Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada Book PDF

Author : Carolyn Harris
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459731141

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Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada by Carolyn Harris Pdf

A deep and gorgeous study of the Magna Carta and how it still influences our world. The year 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the Great Charter imposed on King John by his barons in the thirteenth century to ensure he upheld traditional customs of the nobility. Though it began as a safeguard of the aristocracy, over the past 800 years, the Magna Carta has become a cornerstone of democratic ideals for all. After centuries of obscurity, the Magna Carta was rediscovered in the seventeenth century, and has informed numerous documents upholding human rights, including the American Declaration of Independence, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For Canadians, it has informed key documents from the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that shaped the then-British Colonies and their relations with First Nations, to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This book complements the 2015 Magna Carta Canada exhibition of the Durham Cathedral Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest.

The Magna Carta Manifesto

Peter Linebaugh
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Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520260009

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Magna Carta

J. C. Holt,George Garnett,John Hudson
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Author : J. C. Holt,George Garnett,John Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107093164

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Magna Carta by J. C. Holt,George Garnett,John Hudson Pdf

A new edition of J. C. Holt's classic study of Magna Carta, offering the most authoritative analysis of England's most famous constitutional text. Suitable for scholars, history students, and the general reader, this outstanding study of the events of 1215 integrates analysis of personality, ideas, and political development.

Magna Carta - Its Role In The Making Of The English Constitution 1300-1629

Faith Thompson
Magna Carta Its Role In The Making Of The English Constitution 1300 1629 Book PDF

Author : Faith Thompson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781447495178

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Magna Carta - Its Role In The Making Of The English Constitution 1300-1629 by Faith Thompson Pdf

The Magna Carta was a landmark document in the history of England and the wider world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Magna Carta

Dan Jones
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Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781858844

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A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world. A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the 'Great Charter' established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English.

The Magna Carta of Humanity

Os Guinness
The Magna Carta of Humanity Book PDF

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847167

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The Magna Carta of Humanity by Os Guinness Pdf

In these stormy times, voices from all fronts call for change. But what kind of revolution brings true freedom to both society and the human soul? Cultural observer Os Guinness explores the nature of revolutionary faith, contrasting between secular revolutions such as the French Revolution and the faith-led revolution of ancient Israel. He argues that the story of Exodus is the highest, richest, and deepest vision for freedom in human history. It serves as the master story of human freedom and provides the greatest sustained critique of the abuse of power. His contrast between "Paris" and "Sinai" offers a framework for discerning between two kinds of revolution and their different views of human nature, equality, and liberty. Drawing on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, Guinness develops Exodus as the Magna Carta of humanity, with a constructive vision of a morally responsible society of independent free people who are covenanted to each other and to justice, peace, stability, and the common good of the community. This is the model from the past that charts our path to the future. "There are two revolutionary faiths bidding to take the world forward," Guinness writes. "There is no choice facing America and the West that is more urgent and consequential than the choice between Sinai and Paris. Will the coming generation return to faith in God and to humility, or continue to trust in the all sufficiency of Enlightenment reason, punditry, and technocracy? Will its politics be led by principles or by power?" While Guinness cannot predict our ultimate fate, he warns that we must recognize the crisis of our time and debate the issues openly. As individuals and as a people, we must choose between the revolutions, between faith in God and faith in Reason alone, between freedom and despotism, and between life and death.

Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction

Nicholas Vincent
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Author : Nicholas Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199582877

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Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent Pdf

Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. With a full English translation of the 1215 charter, Nicholas Vincent introduces the document to a modern audience; explaining its origins and tracing the significance of its role in our history.

Magna Carta

Ralph Turner
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Author : Ralph Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317873945

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This new history is the first to tell the story of Magna Carta ‘through the ages’. No other general work traces its continuing importance in England’s political consciousness. Many books have examined the circumstances surrounding King John’s grant of Magna Carta in 1215. Very few trace the Charter’s legacy to subsequent centuries and even fewer look at the fate of the physical document. Turner also underlines its great influence outside the United Kingdom, especially in North America. Today, the Charter enjoys greater prestige in the United States, the land of lawyers, than in Britain. U.S. citizens claim Magna Carta as a source of their liberties, guaranteeing ‘due process of law’ and condemning ‘executive privilege’.

Magna Carta

Dan Jones
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Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143108955

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"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia Fraser From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be—by the author of Powers and Thrones. The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles—even its language—can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a document that would change the course of history. At the time of its creation the Magna Carta was just a peace treaty drafted by a group of rebel barons who were tired of the king's high taxes, arbitrary justice, and endless foreign wars. The fragile peace it established would last only two months, but its principles have reverberated over the centuries. Jones's riveting narrative follows the story of the Magna Carta's creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England, and charts the high points in its unexpected afterlife. Reissued by King John's successors it protected the Church, banned unlawful imprisonment, and set limits to the exercise of royal power. It established the principle that taxation must be tied to representation and paved the way for the creation of Parliament. In 1776 American patriots, inspired by that long-ago defiance, dared to pick up arms against another English king and to demand even more far-reaching rights. We think of the Declaration of Independence as our founding document but those who drafted it had their eye on the Magna Carta.

Magna Carta

David Starkey
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Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681445991

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In this erudite, entertaining book, award-winning historian and television presenter David Starkey untangles historical and modern misconceptions about one of the founding documents of democracy. Along the way, he shows how the Magna Carta laid the foundation for the British constitution, influenced the American Revolution and the U.S. constitution, and continues to shape jurisprudential thinking about individual rights around the world today. In 1215, King John I of England faced a domestic crisis. He had just lost an expensive campaign to retake his ancestral lands in France, an unfortunate adventure that he had funded by heavily taxing the baronial lords of England. Sick of the unpopular king's heavy-handed rule, and unimpressed by the king's unsuccessful attempt to seize Normandy, the feudal barons united to make demands of their sovereign for certain protections. These demands, the "Articles of the Barons," were submitted to the king in rough draft after the rebels occupied three cities, most significantly London. A few years later, after being edited and amplified by the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, the Articles would come to be known as the Magna Carta. The self-interested barons couldn't have known it at the time, but those demands would one day become the bedrock of democratic political development around the globe--even though that influence was largely due to mythologizing by later scholars who warped the symbolism of the document to support their arguments in favor of the rights of all citizens. Although the Magna Carta itself made no requests on behalf of the peasantry, in its structure the outlines of modern democratic reform are plainly visible. Among other things, it demanded limits on the ability of the crown to levy taxes; protection of the rights of the church; the guarantee of swift justice; and a ban on unjust imprisonment. Those protections and guarantees were strictly intended for benefit of feudal barons, but the free citizens of today's democratic nations owe an enormous debt to this history-changing document.

1215

Danny Danziger,John Gillingham
1215 Book PDF

Author : Danny Danziger,John Gillingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743257732

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1215 by Danny Danziger,John Gillingham Pdf

Danziger sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life at a time that saw the Crusades, Richard the Lionheart and the legendary Robin Hood all make their marks in history. At the center of this period is the document that has become the capstone of modern freedom: The Magna Carta.

Magna Carta

David Carpenter
Magna Carta Book PDF

Author : David Carpenter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141968469

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Magna Carta by David Carpenter Pdf

'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man 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." Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in world history. It asserts a fundamental principle: that the ruler is subject to the law. Alongside a new text and translation of the Charter, David Carpenter's commentary draws on new discoveries to give an entirely fresh account of Magna Carta's text, origins, survival and enforcement, showing how it quickly gained a central place in English political life. It also uses Magna Carta as a lens through which to view thirteenth-century society, focusing on women and peasants as well as barons and knights. The book is a landmark in Magna Carta studies. 2015 is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta's creation - an event which will be marked with exhibitions, commemorations and debates in all the countries over whose constitutions and legal assumptions the shadow of Magna Carta hangs.

Magna Carta

Zbigniew Rau,Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski,Marek Tracz-Tryniecki
Magna Carta Book PDF

Author : Zbigniew Rau,Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski,Marek Tracz-Tryniecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317278580

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Magna Carta by Zbigniew Rau,Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski,Marek Tracz-Tryniecki Pdf

To mark the 800th anniversary of the ratification of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, Magna Carta provides the central European perspectives on this monumental document and its impact on the political and legal experiences of freedom, from the medieval period to the present day. The volume gives rise to a discussion about the legacy of the Magna Carta as one of the fundamental elements of European identity. Supported by previously untranslated sources at the end of each chapter, the team of contributors consider the lasting legacy of Magna Carta in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania. The authors present the successful attempts to limit royal power by law while protecting the priveleges of the nobility carried out throughout the region from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. Each chapter considers the historical and political contexts behind these efforts, the processes by which political and legal institutions were subsequently formed and finally examines the legacy of those institutions which are today found in constitutional identities, constitutional arrangements and political projects across Central Europe. A preface by Robert Blackburn draws the collection together, highlighting the continued universal significance of the Magna Carta. This original title will enable students and academics alike to see for themselves the reverberations the Magna Carta caused in medieval Europe and beyond from a fresh and unusual perspective.

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King John
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Author : King John
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291433074

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The constitutional foundation of English (and perhaps world) freedoms

Magna Carta and the England of King John

Janet Senderowitz Loengard
Magna Carta and the England of King John Book PDF

Author : Janet Senderowitz Loengard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835486

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Magna Carta and the England of King John by Janet Senderowitz Loengard Pdf

Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived by those who actually knew him? The essays here analyse earlier Angevin rulers and the effect of their reigns on John's England, the causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the "managerial revolution" of the English church, and the effect of the ius commune on English common law. They also examine the burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect on English towns, the background to discontent over the royal forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest, the effect of Magna Carta on widows and property, and the course of criminal justice before 1215. The volume concludes with the first critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his position in the matter of William de Briouze. Contributors: Janet S. Loengard, Ralph V. Turner, John Gillingham, David Crouch, David Crook, James A. Brundage, John Hudson, Barbara Hanawalt, James Masschaele