Laws conform to Magna Carta too!

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  1. hilbert

    hilbert New Member

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    I thought only GOPpers from backward states were a bit looney, but the GOPpers in the New Hampshire Legislature support a bill to require all, new N.H. laws correspond with something in the Magna Carta of the 13th century!

    I cannot believe it!

    Even SNL couldn't come up with something that funny!
     
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    Piscivorous New Member

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    You do realize that English speaking countries base their laws on English Common Law and the Magna Carta?
     
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    TheLastBoyScout New Member

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    The Magna Carta is a great document, but it's really really specific to England........13th century, Feudal England.

    Some people are apparently out of their mind here. The basis for laws in America is the U.S. Constitution.
     
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    Yes, but without a link, I'm only speculating here.....
     
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    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Was there any new freedom in the Magna Carta that you object to? You do realize the document was in response to King John's excesses?
     
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    I don't think anything nefarious is going on here, but I can't say that I support this bill either. I think our constitution is sufficient, and we should focus on amendments where we feel something needs to change within the language of the constitution, rather than adopting documents from another place and time.
     
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    The age of the magna carta was the coolest ever.
    Nobles owning slaves, witches being burned, the rich eating huge meals while most people starved, no scientific avance, total power to the church...
    Everything all republicans want, WE WANT THE XIII CENTURY BACK
     
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    Source for that contention?
     
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    Serfin' USA Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if these people have even read the Magna Carta (or the Constitution for that matter).
     
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    The Supreme Court of Indiana recently passed a law which would make it illegal to defend yourself from police making an illegal entry on your house.

    This is what the Magna Carta prevented.

    The US is sooooo screwed!
     
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    Thank god William Marshal first earl of Pembrook was there to serve the people for half a century. Without him the Magna carta not only would not have ever been made, but france would own England, and George Washington would never have been born (direct ancestor). The man was a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing legend, like William wallace+king arthur+ Winston Churchill+ Ronald Reagan+Roosevelt+Julius Caesar added together then multiplied by ten. His exploits and actions are definitely worth a read.
     
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    No, but I do believe our political ideas have progressesed some in 8 centuries!
     
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    Yes, but our idea of government has progressed in 8 centuries, even though your type hasn't.
     
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    This sounds uncanily similar to the views of a few posters here....
     
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    Freedom of your heirs to pay interest on money borrowed from a Jew:

    If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, dies before that loan can be repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age, irrespective from whom he holds his lands. If such a debt falls into our hands, we will take nothing except the principalreturn to the index on the 'Magna Carta, 1215 - English translation' page sum mentioned in the bond.

    http://www.magnacartaplus.org/magnacarta/
     
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    Yeah, the 'king' has been replaced by the big government bureaucrat.
     
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