Show MAGNA CHARTA RECALLED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DAY IS BEING OBSERVED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GAVE FREEDOM ITS START STAR Throughout the English speaking In ing world orld Magna ChartA day Is be- be being b bini ini ing celebrated today tod y The Great now recognised a as one of oftie to tie most significant ant documents document In inthe the old t struggle for tor for freedom treed am was AS WI wrested cst cd from rom the infamous 1 I In John at Runnymede Runn mede seven hundred and eight years 00 ago It M a nag the first and greatest of the historic documents that ha have e lashed and defended liberty among it c i r ople eople It was the forerunner of th Declaration of at Independence o of the American In 1774 ani ant Pt tt tho the tench Charte Charts of or 1816 by 1 which ilch the principles of at modern m Q m clacy were formulated GRUEl RULER KIn King John was Mas a vain cruel and licentious prince Abuses that had hadd d v loped during earlier reigns cul cui nand him In a wild orgy bur or crudu and oppression fort The bur fen den of at t tyranny ranny became unbearable and on a brilliant br summer day dai un- un under under un under der ah ab an English KlIsh sky sk a n group of do- do de determined men With Ith their hands hAnda on their swords s compelled a stubborn d 1 at al to sign slim an on agree- agree m nl nl that a turning point In tory hl-tory and from rom bless 1111 Ing o hi descended upon all man man- mankind mankind kind The charter charier states elates In great de de- de detail ta tail II the exactions and abuses that re to bo corrected much of at which Is unintelligible to a modern man but 1 I contained certain out out- principles that thereIn i HP written fore er Into the fun tun- law Jaw of at the lend land and dur- dur InI succeeding ages constituted an Impregnable bulwark against the tho of ot despotic power l ICIA DD forest rarest laws were sere ere mod Arbitrary exactions by feu- feu feud du diu i lords from tram their asals hero elO done doue 1 0 away avay with The distinction b tl een Norman and Saxon us as ft obliterated But Hut abo o abo e all as ae asB B 0 ia as s It l and nJ established the liberties of at the cite of o London ondon and all other clUes LOI to towns tons ns and ports of at the kingdom J and ond lasts It protected 1 eurs U individual Id ual of o 0 th the nation In InI Inthe inthe inthe I the free enjo of ot his life lite his 1 iIi h and his property unless I de-I do do d to bo Le forfeited by the judg judg- judgment judgment ment of his peers or the law ol of oft the tit bind ind Ir general Magna ragna Charta set UP tic til a 11 y of ot the Iho land as against the th whim him and PO power er of the thc monarch It re recognized rights tights of the tha individual u ual 1 nb ab n against royal roal ro al vassal and pet pet- petty petty petty ty h tyrant rant It pro provided prodded that no t tag of II supply should be Ic Idled led except by bv t tie Ill consent of a II great council 1 e the barons and people ot of atI 11 II c realm and It erected safe safe- safeguards safeguards guards for toi the life lite and or of the Individual ual subject that de- de elOped into trial by jury Juo habeas corpus prohibition of ot trial by tor- tor torture lure tor-lure ture and other principles of at human fr ed om and justice A copy of at the Great Charter was wall wa sort sert to lo eo e e er cathedral and order- order C cJ eJ read publicly twice a year ear Thus It became as Hallam declared 4 rh The kc keystone stone ot or English liberty While the Importance of the thee event e nt cannot annot be overestimated It we but the first tint skirmish In the war ar tor for freedom John treacherous ous and crafty cratty had no Intention of o observing the obligations of the charter wrested from him hint under of violence His insane pi 1 could not 1 tolerate the tho humilIation In Uti 1213 John had submit of Innocent IU Ill and ond had i d become a vassal of the Pope accepting England as a pa- pa oal oai fief Cia and agreeing to pay 1000 marks each sear car In recognition of o his He Ile H now appealed to t Innocent who ho exercising his hl tem tem- temI temporal and spiritual authority an- an annulled I the charter and cued cited the leaders In the revolt I the royal tyrant I tn in in the strength ur or the papal sup sup- sup put pert King John renewed his struggle gle glo n 1 ith the barons which I was can ena- caned ona-cd ona ed cd bv by his death In 1216 lies Ills son Henry III acting uner unter un- un uner ter er measure PI from the barons sign sign- signed sign sIgn- signed ed td and the Great Gred Char Char- Charter Charter Charter ter and thus Its profound an and tar far reaching principles were ere estal d cd In recent lears ears cars the of at thu treat great event and the tin effect t t has bad had upon all subsequent of or the struggle tor for human rights has bas been more generally rec rec- rec and Magna Charta Day DayI Dayl u will wall u become one of the I Ireat American liberty celebrating Anglo- Anglo I |