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...founding impulses of America were not original. They came from the Magna Carta, from the British Bill of Rights, from Locke and Montesquieu, from St. Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa ("Since all men are by nature free, then government rests on the consent of the governed") and a hundred other places. The young, exuberant colonies fused them into revolution...
...following day, an unemployed former Green Beret named John Carta dropped from a small plane, popped open a parachute, and landed safely amid startled tourists on top of the 110-story World Trade Center. The city was back to normal...
...with all his histories, Shakespeare takes certain liberties with the actual course of events during King John's reign; he never mentions the Magna Carta, for instance. In trying to compress 30 years into an evening's entertainment, the playwright condenses many battles into slightly dull and strategy-filled second half. Aside from Pearson, the actors in this half seem unaware of the full motivation behind Shakespeare's lines...
...idea that individuals have rights that government should not infringe was an article of faith with "freeborn Englishmen" as far back as 1215, when a group of barons sat King John down to sign the Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press...
...slow train back from Bath stops at Salisbury (pronounced Sawlsbry), whose 13th century gothic cathedral boasts the tallest spire in Britain (404 ft.); it tilts 291/2 in. to the southwest. The cathedral houses the best-preserved of only four original copies of the Magna Carta, and the country's oldest working clock, which first tolled time around...