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6 Nov 2014, 5:06 am
Briefly: In The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin reports on the Chief Justice’s remarks at a Library of Congress event anticipating the Magna Carta’s eight-hundredth birthday. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 4:59 pm
There are so many things that impacted the Constitution... from the Magna Carta to Madison; Montesquieu to Mason; and even a few that didn't start with 'M'. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 1:39 pm
I had a Magna Carta moment, and I said (rather pompously, in hindsight) "I am going about my lawful occasions, officer. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 5:00 am
It is an issue as old as the Magna Carta, and every individual’s freedom depends on it. [read post]
1 Dec 2021, 11:59 am
In an article in the British Library, Author Geoffrey Robertson remarked that the modern independent jury arises out of the rights and limitations originally set forth in the Magna Carta. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 1:45 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts starts out his analysis in today’s unanimous ruling on a religious-freedom case by drawing on the biggest and oldest of them all, the Magna Carta or Great Charter of 1215. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 1:30 pm
Artifacts include: a fourteenth-century Magna Carta; furniture used by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; and a painting of Justice John Marshall by eminent portrait artist Chester Harding.The centerpiece of the exhibit is an early printed volume of English statutes once owned by photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 5:05 pm
In contrast to Canada, the UK has no such written constitution, making for an often confusing hodge-podge of various documents going back as far as the Magna Carta of 1215, which has also led to some contemporary problems. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 7:42 am
., warning against citing the Magna Carta in Supreme Court oral argument; how a citizen may relate the text of a document seen at the National Constitution Center to the decisions the Supreme Court issues about the words and ideas those documents contain; and a practical discussion of understanding the Fourth Amendment, the history of writs of assistance and searching a cellphone. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 2:54 am
The release describes Boumediene in glowing terms, along with background like Habeas corpus has been regarded as a cornerstone of liberty and a check against the abuse of executive power since the Magna Carta in 1215. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 4:17 pm
It adds, "Eminent domain has a long and distinguished legal history, dating from the first limits on sovereign power in the Magna Carta. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
We put out an exhibit of selected Norman law materials, including a couple of Magna Cartas, a Bracton, a Glanville, and this facsimile of the Domesday Book. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 7:00 am
I had no idea that the Law Library of Congress organized exhibitions for the public, including one last year which displayed an original copy of the Magna Carta. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 12:15 pm
., Selected Readings and Commentaries on Magna Carta 1400-1604 (London: Seldon Society, 2015). [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 8:08 am
It is no surprise to me that 2 of the 4 known copies of the Magna Carta are kept in the British Library. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 1:38 pm
The place where there is the Magna Carta rather than the Constitution and Bill of Rights. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 12:49 pm
I mean, the Magna Carta was enacted in 1215, and it doesn't seem that the UK has descended into a Lord of The Flies situation. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 4:18 pm
From the Introduction by Dan Dalton: Eminent domain has a long and distinguished legal history, dating from the first limits on sovereign power in the Magna Carta. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 10:15 am
After visiting it, continue down the hall to see Jefferson’s Library and the Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor Exhibition (which runs until January 19, 2015). [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 12:10 pm
I’ve already identified the young guest; I’m a first generation Jew and my ex-wife’s family came to the US in 1691 and my girls are members of the DAR, the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Dames of the Magna Carta (their mother’s family set this up for them). [read post]
