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1 Dec 2006, 9:08 pm
He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 1:33 pm
When the judges are reaching for Magna Carta to express their frustration, there is a teeny problem. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 3:21 am
Coming, as it does, from medieval England just after the Magna Carta, it is the oldest statute in Anglo-American jurisprudence. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 5:45 am
Marshall, "To no one deny or delay right or justice"- Magna Carta 1215, Imperfect constitutions, imperfect courts and the ideal of justice. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 3:07 am
The police-state tendencies of governments worldwide, which are especially worrisome here in the nation that gave birth to the Magna Carta, don’t need any further assistance. [read post]
10 Dec 2023, 4:22 am
The home of Magna Carta and so many democratic values would overwhelmingly reject suffrage for women at roughly the same time that a territory in the Western United States would embrace it. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 8:39 am
We looked at our Book of Hours, a beautiful Ethiopian bible, a 1475 edition of Justinian's Codex, a 1539 Robert Redman Magna Carta, a 1569 Bracton, a 1639 edition of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (with the New Atlantis included in the back), the first edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, several law student notebooks from the early 1800s, and many others. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 4:34 pm
“It goes back to Magna Carta … it’s a longstanding principle. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 7:23 am
We kick off the course next week with an up-close viewing of an original Magna Carta, the source of many of our rights and just a few short blocks away at the British Library. [read post]
15 May 2018, 6:00 am
These videos focus on topics such as American constitutional law, the founding fathers, and the inspiration for American constitutional rights, including the Magna Carta. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 6:00 am
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, January 6, 2012: Orly Taitz Scores Procedural Victory in Birther Lawsuit, America Is Saved (Wonkette) Magna Carta and Wingnut Legislation : Lawyers, Guns & Money Washington State couple sues Johnson & Johnson, allege defective, recalled Children's Tylenol killed son Mitch Kowalski: Will 2012 be watershed year or business as usual? [read post]
31 Dec 2022, 3:03 pm
First is the tendency of courts to use the statutory text as no more than a starting point, treating it as a highly general principle, or “Magna Carta,” of free enterprise, and sometimes ignoring the statutory language altogether. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 9:34 pm
And the Magna Carta, which created the beginnings of Anglo-American democracy, was a tax cap agreement (sort of like Prop 13). [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 3:27 am
” Yes Senator, you could turn to foreign law to get good ideas.Let's see, just off the top of my head -- the Magna Carta, habeas corpus, the French Enlightenment, Monica Bellucci -- these things all came from foreign places.But it's the aggressively dishonest and asinine nature of these comments, delivered from people who presumably have a brain and know better, that really gets to me.Since anyone with even a passing knowledge of our Constitution knows the nefarious… [read post]
19 May 2007, 6:32 pm
Explaining the Internet to someone who’s never been online, is like explaining the Magna Carta to your cat. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 11:56 am
In addition to our in-person resources, Sheila and I talked about some of the free online legal resources supported by Law Library of Congress librarians and research specialists, including our legal reports on foreign, comparative, and domestic law, our Magna Carta exhibition and blog posts, and the Congress.gov legislative information system. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 11:00 am
.” NACDL also urges Congress quickly to rectify the problem it created last year in the Military Commission Act, which, by denying the Guantanamo detainees and others access to the courts, has regrettably returned us to the dark era predating not only the Geneva Conventions,but the Magna Carta. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 8:55 am
First is the tendency of courts to use the statutory text as no more than a starting point, treating it as a highly general principle, or “Magna Carta,” of free enterprise, and sometimes ignoring the statutory language altogether. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 12:06 pm
Indiana Code "The English common-law right to resist unlawful police action existed for over three hundred years, and some scholars trace its origin to the Magna Carta in 1215... [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 4:52 am
The promise has even deeper roots, found 800 years ago in England’s Magna Carta. [read post]
