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...River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association...
Vitality & Life. Modern historians dismiss most of Magna Carta as something of a relic of 13th century feudalism, and most schoolboys read of it but never in it. Yet the remarkable thing about that venerable document is that it enunciated many of the brilliant first principles that give vitality to the U.S. Constitution and thus life to the law that affects and protects the great and the humble alike...
...greatest thing since the Magna Carta," cheered a New Jersey defense lawyer. "A black-letter day for law enforcement," mourned a Philadelphia prosecutor. Tossing out two New Jersey murder confessions, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia had just ruled that even voluntary confessions are inadmissible whenever police fail to tell suspects that they have a right to counsel and to remain silent when questioned...
Last week in Bonn, after five years of committee hearings and debate, the Bundestag finally voted to deNazify corporate law. The sweeping reform legislation that it passed is virtually a stockholders' Magna Carta that will curb the power of industrial kings and guarantee the rights of stockholders. The law, which applies to publicly owned companies, should also provide German industry with a new flow of badly needed capital...
...These words are not merely empty vessels," said Griswold. They go back 750 years to Magna Carta; yet the states so ignored them that in 1905 the highly conservative William Howard Taft, who later became Chief Justice, called U.S. state criminal justice "a disgrace to our civilization." As recently as 1923, the Supreme Court confronted the fact that Arkansas' highest court had upheld death sentences meted out in a trial "dominated by mob violence" (Moore v. Dempsey). Was the Supreme Court wrong in reversing that decision? What about confessions "obtained by brutality or by fraud?" asked the dean. Since...