Description: LEATHER BOUND EDITION OF AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE MAGNA CHARTA OF KING JOHNby RICHARD THOMSONPublished Legal Classics Library, Special Edition, 1982. (Reprint of London 1829 edition) Beautifully designed green leather covers with brass-die 22k stampings. Spine has 4 raised bands, 22k stampings. Edges 22k gilt. Silk page marker. 612 pages. Colorful marbled endleaves. Very good hardcover. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. The classic work of moral, political, and legal philosophy and human rights. Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood by their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.At the end of the 16th century, there was an upsurge in interest in Magna Carta. Lawyers and historians at the time believed that there was an ancient English constitution, going back to the days of the Anglo-Saxons, that protected individual English freedoms. They argued that the Norman invasion of 1066 had overthrown these rights and that Magna Carta had been a popular attempt to restore them, making the charter an essential foundation for the contemporary powers of Parliament and legal principles such as habeas corpus. Although this historical account was badly flawed, jurists such as Sir Edward Coke used Magna Carta extensively in the early 17th century, arguing against the divine right of kings. Both James I and his son Charles I attempted to suppress the discussion of Magna Carta. The political myth of Magna Carta and its protection of ancient personal liberties persisted after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 until well into the 19th century. It influenced the early American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies and the formation of the United States Constitution, which became the supreme law of the land in the new republic of the United States. Loc: B1StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackLAW LAWYER JUDGE LEGAL HISTORY PHILOSOPHY MAGNA CHARTA LEATHER RIGHTS KING JOHN LEATHER BOUND EDITION OF AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE MAGNA CHARTA OF KING JOHNby RICHARD THOMSONPublished Legal Classics Library, Special Edition, 1982. (Reprint of London 1829 edition) Beautifully designed green leather covers with brass-die 22k stampings. Spine has 4 raised bands, 22k stampings. Edges 22k gilt. Silk page marker. 612 pages. Colorful marbled endleaves. Very good hardcover. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. The classic work of moral, political, and legal philosophy and human rights. Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood by their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.At the end of the 16th century, there was an upsurge in interest in Magna Carta. Lawyers and historians at the time believed that there was an ancient English constitution, going back to the days of the Anglo-Saxons, that protected individual English freedoms. They argued that the Norman invasion of 1066 had overthrown these rights and that Magna Carta had been a popular attempt to restore them, making the charter an essential foundation for the contemporary powers of Parliament and legal principles such as habeas corpus. Although this historical account was badly flawed, jurists such as Sir Edward Coke used Magna Carta extensively in the early 17th century, arguing against the divine right of kings. Both James I and his son Charles I attempted to suppress the discussion of Magna Carta. The political myth of Magna Carta and its protection of ancient personal liberties persisted after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 until well into the 19th century. It influenced the early American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies and the formation of the United States Constitution, which became the supreme law of the land in the new republic of the United States. Loc: B1
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Number of Pages: 612
Topic: Constitutional Law, English Legal System, History of Ideas, International Law, Social History, World History, LAW, LAWYER, JUDGE, ENGLISH LAW, HISTORY, LAWS, COMMON LAW, LEGAL PRECEDENT, PHILOSOPHY, MORALS
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Era: 1980s
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Edition: LEATHER EDITION
Language: English
Publication Year: 1982
Book Title: AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE MAGNA CHARTA OF KING JOHN
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Author: RICHARD THOMSON., RICHARD THOMSON
Original Language: English
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