{"id":45543,"date":"2021-06-08T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45543"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:47:13","slug":"qotd-magna-carta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/06\/08\/qotd-magna-carta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Magna Carta<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There also happened in this reign the memorable Charta, known as Magna Charter on account of the Latin Magna<\/em> (great) and Charter<\/em> (a Charter); this was the first of the famous Chartas and Gartas of the Realm and was invented by the Barons on a desert island in the Thames called Ganymede. By congregating there, armed to the teeth, the Barons compelled John to sign the Magna Charter, which said:<\/p>\n

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  1. That no one was to be put to death, save for some reason (except the Common People).<\/li>\n
  2. That everyone should be free (except the Common People).<\/li>\n
  3. That everything should be of the same weight and measure throughout the Realm (except the Common People).<\/li>\n
  4. That the Courts should be stationary, instead of following a very tiresome medieval official known as the King’s Person all over the country.<\/li>\n
  5. That “no person should be fined to his utter ruin” (except the King’s Person).<\/li>\n
  6. That the Barons should not be tried except by a special jury of other Barons who would understand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Magna Charter was therefore the chief cause of Democracy in England, and thus a Good Thing for everyone (except the Common People).<\/p>\n

    After this King John hadn’t a leg to stand on and was therefore known as `John Lackshanks’.<\/p>\n

    W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, 1066 And All That<\/em><\/a>, 1930.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There also happened in this reign the memorable Charta, known as Magna Charter on account of the Latin Magna (great) and Charter (a Charter); this was the first of the famous Chartas and Gartas of the Realm and was invented by the Barons on a desert island in the Thames called Ganymede. By congregating there, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57,9,41],"tags":[1248,570,1019,396,463],"class_list":["post-45543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","category-law","category-quotations","tag-1066andallthat","tag-england","tag-magnacarta","tag-monarchy","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bQz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66389,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45543\/revisions\/66389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}