please explain the magna carta?
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Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter", literally "Great Paper"), also known as Magna Carta Libertatum, is an English 1215 charter which limited the power of English Monarchs, specifically King John, from absolute rule. Magna Carta was the result of disagreements between the Pope and King John and his barons over the rights of the king: Magna Carta required the king to renounce certain rights and respect certain legal procedures, and to accept that the will of the king could be bound by law. Magna Carta is widely considered to be the first step in a long historical process leading to the rule of constitutional law. Hope this helps! Or you could go to the source below!
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The rule of law is a principle founded on the plains of England in the Magna Carta.  It is exemplified by countries like the United States and Australia.\nIt simply means that all people within the citizenship are equal in the eyes of the law.  It is why the statue of Justice has a blind-fold, so that she cannot see how pretty you are or what color your skin is.  She cannot tell how much money you have, either.\nEqual rights under the law means that everyone is subject to the same treatment in court and by extension, in society in general.
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The Preamble \n\nIt is an introduction to the Constitution and gives the basic reason for creating the document.  "... in order to create a more perfect union..."\n\n[][][] r u randy? [][][]\n.
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King. Before the Magna Carta screwed it all up. :)
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In 1408 a czech guy named Huss protested against the catholic church saying it had strayed from the letter of the law, ET is an allegory for the life of Christ (yeah, I'm not kidding). Maybe there could be a connection there? Good luck,
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Hoo boy. Flexible living document? You're talking about a document where the people and the states gave a limited amount of power to the federal government to act. The government was given strict limits, because going beyond those limits would be taking power and freedom from the people. And they have.\n\nIt has an amendment process to make it change with the times.\n\nAnd we have lost much because the Supreme Court have violated their limits and created unConstitutional law our of whole cloth based on their biased views of society.\n\nNo, it is not a living document - it is a contract.\n\nGod help us from those who seek to give up their freedoms and liberties.
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The US Constitution was written in 1776.  There have been alot of modifications (amendments) since that time but are you referring to just amendments during that five year period?  If you could be a little more specific, I could help you a whole lot more.  Oh yeah, and don't forget  about The Bill Of Rights.  Maybe even just as important.  To keep corruption out of the executive branch (you know--the checks & balance system) that's going to hell as we speak?  or rather write........
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Well, my opinion is that the document is outdated.  It's just a piece of paper,  made by men after all, and yet it is revered as if made by the hand of God.  \n\nI think it should be considered to draw up a new constitution: One that wouldn't need exhaustive amounts of amendments, and would apply to the state of affairs in 2006 versus 1776.  It could also include and merge all the standing supreme court decisions, which would allow the justices to refer to the constitution instead of court precedent, a practice I find to be admirable but not necessarily wise.  (A decision handed down in the past may nonetheless have been in error.)\n\nI realize that this is an extremely radical viewpoint.  But nonetheless I think people should consider the fact that the constitution is more symbolic now than truly effective.
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A good outline needs to be quick and easy to read and get information from.\n\nLets say we are writting an outline about the English Revolution.\n\nThe first "headings" are usually roman numberals\nI. English Revolution\n\nThe next heading or sub heading is usaully a letter and provided information about the heading above it (indent)\n\nI. English Revolution\n   A. Over threw the puritan rebulic\n\nThe sub headings under the letters are usaully numbers and help explain the heading above them (indent)\n\nI.  English Revolution\n    A. Over threw the Puritan Republic\n         1. Attempted to restore the Monarchy\nIf you have to explain further use -\nI hope  that helped.
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I have ATTEMPTED to read it.  It doesn't say much by itself.  It is like trying to read and understand the IRS code.  The MCA keeps referring to other laws; to get the meaning you would have to read all of those, and those refer to OTHER laws, ad infinitum.\n\nI have read some analysis of it and it is horrifying.  I am sure that the Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional.  After all, the law takes away the authority of the Court and the Court is not likely to be happy with losing its power.
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Magna Carta was by no means a democratic constitution proclaiming fundamental rights and liberties that were the common possession of all English subjects, rights and liberties that were to be guaranteed and equally applied to every subject. The document was crafted by a feudal nobility for a medieval society in which its members were legally and politically unequal, most members of the society were serfs without legally guaranteed and protected rights respecting their relations with government or with their respective feudal lords, and this general condition of legal and political inequality was accepted by virtually everyone as not only natural and normal but also right and just. Magna Carta, at the time of its adoption, was a feudal document designed to protect and promote the particular interests of the most powerful segment of the English population, namely, the barons and their vassals. While protection of the interests of free commoners (small landholders and burgesses) was included in the document, Magna Carta did not benefit the masses, since the vast majority of Englishmen in the thirteenth century were villeins -- i.e., serfs, or peasants, who were freemen in their legal relations with all persons except their feudal lord, to whom they were totally subject as slaves. Rather than being a democratic constitution specifying and guaranteeing to all citizens equal protection of the laws and the right to vote in elections for legislators and/or other government officers and to otherwise participate in the political process, Magna Carta was a feudal document intended to protect the specialized rights and privileges of particular social classes, to curb the trend toward royal absolutism, and to restore government according to established feudal customs and traditions. \nAlthough Magna Carta was almost forgotten during the century of absolutism or near-absolutism after 1485, the document was rediscovered and given new luster in the seventeenth century, during the "Era of the English Revolution" -- the period of constitutional crisis, rebellion, and civil war from 1603 to 1689. In opposition to the claims of the first two Stuart monarchs -- James I (1603-1625) and Charles I (l625-1649) -- to the right to govern as absolute monarchs, the defenders of the authority of Parliament brought out Magna Carta and gave it an interpretation that was much broader than what the document was intended to mean when, in 1215, it was drawn up and adopted. In interpreting the document as the palladium and principal bulwark of English liberties, Sir Edward Coke and other leading supporters of Parliament in the power struggle with the Stuart monarchs modernized Magna Carta, transforming it into a constitutional document that worked for the seventeenth-century "Parliamentarians," or "Whigs" -- the men who overthrew and executed one king (Charles I, in 1649) and deposed another (James II, in 1688), driving him out of the country, replacing him with a monarch of their own choice, and forcing the new monarch (William III, in 1689) to accept the Bill of Rights. Today, Magna Carta, like the Bill of Rights of 1689, is regarded as a major milestone in English constitutional history and development.
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1. Knights...?\n2. Cape Horn; You can check the map here: http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/southamerica.html\n3. The Magna Carta\n4. I think nationalism...but I don't that's an ecomonic system...
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Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy\n\nDo you have the book?  It says RIGHT THERE in line 46!\n\nDo your own homework!
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Firstly it is Britain/UK not just England :-) \n\nDriving on the left is generally considered to be a historical leftover from horse mounted knights riding on the left so as to keep sword arm free - other classes had to stay to the right.  Any colony would have rules that matched those of the Crown.\n\nI have a vague recollection of hearing that the European convention to the right is to be opposite from a system that was based on social class.\n\nI guess the correct answer is that it had to be one side or another - the UK is an Island so there would never be a problem at a border.  In mainland Europe or North/South America/Canada everyone would have to standardise or there would be complete chaos at border crossings.\n\nJust my 5 Euro's worth :-)
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None.  It was enacted as a response to the searches carried out by England which were the primary reason for the revolutionary wat.  England was issuing "writs of assistance" to customs officers to combat the growing problem of smuggling to avoid taxes paid to England.
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This is a document writtne in 1215 by Archbishop Stephen Langton. It was a powerful charter, esentially a constitution that dictated a lawful means of interaction between the King and the fuedal lords of the land. It's intent was to prevent oppression from the king, and to protect the surfs and laymen of the country. It laid the ground work for common law. It provided the right for all to have access to the courts despite the costs involved with trials. War broke out and King John lost his lands in France. To overcome this burden, John raised taxes without the consent of the fuedal barrons. this was a breach of the charter and the Magna Carta's powere unfortunately flamed out. With war still going strong King John subsequently died leaving the throne to his 9 year old son Henry the III.
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actually, American law is based on English Common law.\n\nThe Bill of Rights are drawn from several sources including the Magna Carta, not just from the 10 commandments.