Word: carta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey and its even older neighbor, Newgate Gaol...
...great disappointment of the eleven Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians among the delegates, the constitution did not borrow from Hawaii's own Magna Carta, the "law of the splintered paddle."*After heated argument, it was struck from the preamble...
...unhappy signer of the Magna Carta at Runnymede...