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...There are students at Harvard who do not appreciate living history. For example, in 1215 King John was forced by English barons to sign the Magna Carta--a document that effectively curtailed the absolute power of the King. In compensation, the barons offered King John several slightly used Nautilus exercise machines. You may have seen these machines on display at the Malkin Athletic Center museum for the past 750 years...
...with no strict hierarchy, the first arrests were big ones. Schweitzer became a leader of the Freemen after a tax dispute in the late 1970s. Using ideas common to the Posse Comitatus and other rightist fringe groups, they cobbled a doctrine out of bits and pieces of the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Constitution and other sources to argue that the Federal Government represents an illegal usurpation of the common-law power of localities. The ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task Force...
...worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second Wave ideologues" (that is, Industrial Revolution dinosaurs, not clued in to the "Third Wave," the knowledge revolution). "Rather than being a centrifugal force helping to tear society apart, cyberspace can be one of the main forms of glue holding together an increasingly free and diverse society." The key to a "secure...
...Identify the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence...
Just how carefully balanced does a jury have to be in order to render a fair verdict -- not to mention one that the public will believe is fair? In language dating back to the Magna Carta, the English common-law tradition promises defendants a jury of their "peers." The U.S. Constitution mandates "an impartial jury," and American law requires that it be drawn from a representative cross section of the community...