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I felt assured that from that hour, whatsoever the fortunes of the war, every one of those enrolled defenders of the Union had vindicated beyond all future question, for himself, his wife, and their issue, a title to American citizenship, and become heir to all the immunities of Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States.
It is a principle sanctioned by that great foundation of the Law of England, Magna Charta itself, which prescribes, that at the commencement of a war the enemy's merchants shall be kept and treated as our own merchants are treated in their country."
Three men, in a time of peace, were then hung at the yard-arm, merely because, in the Captain's judgment, it became necessary to hang them. To this day the question of their complete guilt is socially discussed. How shall we characterise such a deed? Magna Charta!
Constitution, Upper House, Lower House, national guarantee, balance of power, Magna Charta, Law of Habeas Corpus, all these words were incessantly repeated, and seldom understood; but they were of fundamental importance to a party which was then forming. The first sitting of the States took place on the following day.
From the time of Canute to that of the Magna Charta, you know, the text of our statutes is preserved to us in Latin only, and some old French. * In this publication, the original Saxon words are given, but, owing to the want of Saxon letter, they are printed in common type. I have strictly observed the scale of punishments settled by the Committee, without being entirely satisfied with it.
Of course the preliminary examination was easily and quickly passed. David translated his bit of Caesar's commentaries, answered brilliantly the questions about Alfred the Great, the Anglo-Norman kings, the Constitutions of Clarendon, Magna Charta and Mortmain, Henry the Eighth and the Reformation, the Civil War and Protectorate of Cromwell, the Bill of Rights and the Holy Alliance.
We need to stand beside Calvary and see the price that was paid there for human life. John Keble, the poet-preacher of the English Church, said that the salvation of one soul is worth more than the framing of the Magna Charta of a thousand worlds.
One important result, however, was the great charter of papal privileges just referred to, "the Magna Charta of the University" of Paris.
"By order of the Provisional Committee, "ROBT. M'CORKINDALE, Secretary." "There!" said Bob, slapping down the prospectus on the table, with as much triumph as if it had been the original of Magna Charta "What do you think of that? If it doesn't do the business effectually, I shall submit to be called a Dutchman.
The members drew up a "Petition of Right," which was simply a reaffirmation of the inviolability of the rights of person, of property and of speech a sort of second "Magna Charta." They resolutely and calmly faced their King, the "Petition" in one hand, the granted subsidies in the other.
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