The Rights And Aspirations Of The Magna Carta

Author : Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan,Alexis Chommeloux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319427331

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The Rights and Aspirations of the Magna Carta by Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan,Alexis Chommeloux Pdf

This book provides an original and multidisciplinary approach on Magna Carta (1215) as a joint heritage, a source of inspiration both for long established democracies and countries which only recently experienced the Rule of Law. Far from simply extolling the virtues associated with Magna Carta, it explores the gaps of the Great Charter. Instead of dealing separately with the historians’ and the lawyers’ outlooks as two conflicting perspectives, it juxtaposes the views of medievalist and contemporary historians with those of practicing lawyers and law academics, offering readers a thorough yet accessible historic and legal analysis of the charter and its meaning for the citizens of twenty-first century democracies. At a time of the erosion of civil liberties and fundamental rights, The Rights and Aspirations of the Magna Carta provides a rare insight into the 1215 medieval charter and its legacy.

Author : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350190481

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Memory and Modern British Politics by Matthew Roberts Pdf

This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.

Author : King John
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781291433074

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Magna carta by King John Pdf

The constitutional foundation of English (and perhaps world) freedoms

Author : Stephen Langton
Publisher : Mint Editions
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1513279637

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The Magna Carta by Stephen Langton Pdf

Magna Carta (1215) is a peace treaty drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton in coordination with the English barons. Intended as an appeal to King John of England on behalf of the barons, Magna Carta was agreed to on June 15, 1215. Although it was not initially respected, leading to the First Barons' War, Magna Carta was later revised and reissued as part of the Treaty of Lambeth in 1217, establishing peace between King Henry III and the rebel barons. Dissatisfied with the rule of King John, rebel barons gathered in Northampton in May of 1215 to renounce their feudal ties to the crown. Unwilling to accept arbitration with the Pope on behalf of the King, the barons forced John to meet with them at Runnymede on June 10, 1215. Over the next ten days, and under the direction of Stephen Langton, they turned their demands into a charter now known as Magna Carta. Agreed to by King John on June 15, the Magna Carta proposed major political reforms, including the protection of the rights of the church, protection from unjust imprisonment, and limits on feudal payments and other forms of taxation due to the King. Although Magna Carta focuses on the rights of barons, it also articulates the rights of serfs and other free men. Recognized as a foundational document on the concept of liberty, Magna Carta is widely respected in Britain and the United States, and served as a major influence on the creation of the United States Constitution. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Magna Carta is a classic of English political history reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Javaid Rehman,Ayesha Shahid,Steve Foster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004466180

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The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law by Javaid Rehman,Ayesha Shahid,Steve Foster Pdf

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. The focused theme of Volume 5 is Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East.

Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108429207

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The Blessings of Liberty by John Witte, Jr. Pdf

A robust defense of the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom from antiquity to the present.

Author : Michelle Farrell,Eleanor Drywood,Edel Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317239482

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Human Rights in the Media by Michelle Farrell,Eleanor Drywood,Edel Hughes Pdf

This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political, judicial, academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media, particularly, in print journalism. To focus the discussion, we concentrate on media representation of the controversial proposals in the United Kingdom to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights. The collection is underpinned by the observation that views on human rights and on the proposals to repeal and replace are polarised. On the one hand, human rights are presented as threatening and, therefore, utterly denigrated; on the other hand, human rights are idolised, and, therefore, uncritically celebrated. This is the ‘fear and fetish’ in our title. The media plays a decisive role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints. In order to get to grips with the fear, the fetish and this complex interrelationship, the collection tackles key contemporary themes, amongst them: the proposed British Bill of Rights, Brexit, prisoner-voting, the demonisation of immigrants, press freedom, tabloid misreporting, trial by media and Magna Carta. The collection explores media representation, investigates media polarity and critiques the media’s role.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000092197221

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Press Release by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francesca Klug
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317425717

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A Magna Carta for all Humanity by Francesca Klug Pdf

The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic liberties. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, it was heralded as 'a Magna Carta for all human kind'. Yet in the year in which this medieval Charter’s 800th anniversary is widely celebrated, the future of the UK’s commitment to international human rights standards is in doubt. Are ‘universal values’ commendable as a benchmark by which to judge the rest of the world, but unacceptable when applied ‘at home’? Francesca Klug takes us on a journey through time, exploring such topics as ‘British values,’ ‘natural rights,’ ‘enlightenment values’ and ‘legal rights,’ to convey what is both distinctive and challenging about the ethic and practice of universal human rights. It is only through this prism, she argues, that the current debate on human rights protection in the UK can be understood. This book will be of interest to students of British Politics, Law, Human Rights and International Relations.

Author : Bernard Siegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351325943

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Property Rights by Bernard Siegan Pdf

Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States. According to the standard interpretation, echoed by as lofty an authority as Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the courts did little in the way of protecting property rights in the early years of our nation. Not only does Siegan find this accepted teaching erroneous, but he finds post-Colonial jurisprudence to be firmly rooted in English common law and the writings of its most revered interpreters. Siegan conducts an exhaustive examination of property rights cases decided by state courts between the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. This inventory, which in its sweep captures scores of cases overlooked by previous commentators on the history of property rights, reveals that the protection of these rights is neither a relatively new phenomenon nor a heritage with precarious pedigree. These court cases, as well as early state constitutions, consistently and repeatedly embraced key elements of a property rights jurisprudence, such as protection of the privileges and immunities of citizens, due process of law, equal protection under the law, and prohibitions on the taking of property without just compensation. Case law provides overwhelming evidence that the American legal system, from its inception, has held property rights and their protection in the highest regard.The American Revolution, Siegan reminds us, was fought largely to affirm and protect private property rights-that is, to uphold the "rights of Englishmen"-even if it meant that the colonists would cease being Englishmen. John Locke and other great theoreticians of property rights understood their importance, not only to individuals who happened to possess property, but to the preservation of a free society and to the prosperity of its inhabitants. Siegan's contribution to this venerable tradition lies in his faithful reconstruction of our legal history, which allows us to see just how central property rights have been to the American experiment in liberty-from the very beginning.

Author : United States. Mission to the United Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117928544

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Press Release by United States. Mission to the United Nations Pdf

Author : William L. Bird
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 0810115859

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"Better Living" by William L. Bird Pdf

""Better Living": Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955 is a history of how big business learned to be both entertaining and persuasive when talking to the public. Examining the years from the Depression to postwar prosperity, "Better Living" follows the dissemination of a politically competitive claim of "more," "new," and "better" in industry and in life. Beginning with the changes in business-government relations during the New Deal, this study looks at the ways in which politically active corporations and their leaders learned how to speak - at a time when speaking was not enough." "Using archival sources such as the NBC, Ford Motor Company, DuPont, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt collections, William L. Bird, Jr., establishes the importance of industrial films and their role in public relations and employee relations, as well as the use of dramatic radio productions in corporate public relations. The author examines the interplay between general mass radio and print advertising, radio program sponsorship and scriptwriting, sponsored motion pictures and television entertainment, as well as exhibitions and industrial fairs and the role these media played in shaping ideas about American business and political and cultural institutions in this country for the decades to come." --Book Jacket.

Author : Justin Buckley Dyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013636

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Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition by Justin Buckley Dyer Pdf

Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War. In a series of case studies, Dyer reconstructs the arguments of prominent antislavery thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass. What emerges is a convoluted understanding of American constitutional development that emphasizes the centrality of natural law to America's greatest constitutional crisis.

Author : Martin Gutmann,Daniel Gorman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192664990

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Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals by Martin Gutmann,Daniel Gorman Pdf

Chapter 14 from this book is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/ Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals enables professionals, scholars, and students engaged with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to develop a richer understanding of the legacies and historical complexities of the policy fields behind each goal. Each of the seventeen chapters tells the decades- or centuries-old backstory of one SDG and reveals the global human connections, governance tools and frameworks, and the actors involved in past efforts to address sustainable development challenges. Collectively, the seventeen chapters build a historical latticework that reveals the multiple and often interwoven sources that have shaped the challenges later encompassed in the SDGs. Engaging and insightfully written, the book's chapters are authored by international experts from multiple disciplines. The book is an indispensable resource and a vital foundation for understanding the past's indelible footprint on our contemporary sustainable development challenges.

Author : Brian Christopher Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971102

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Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy by Brian Christopher Jones Pdf

Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy investigates the increasingly important subject of constitutional idolatry and its effects on democracy. Focussed around whether the UK should draft a single written constitution, it suggests that constitutions have been drastically and persistently over-sold throughout the years, and that their wider importance and effects are not nearly as significant as constitutional advocates maintain. Chapters analyse whether written constitutions can educate the citizenry, invigorate voter turnout, or deliver ‘We the People’ sovereignty.