Word: charta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...
Mexico's Padilla, whose early speech on "the free American" (TIME, Jan. 26) expressed the optimum hopes of the Conference, drew cheers again when he said: "This is not the time to defend material riches; this is the time and hour of sacrifice. . . . Let us sign the Magna Charta of united America in the midst of the gravest hour ever struck for magna chartas...
...OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis which may be regarded as the Magna Charta for the hidden eyes of the New Order...
Traditional among democratic freedoms is habeas corpus, established in England by the Magna Charta, in the U.S. by the Constitution. It gives imprisoned men the right to demand that either they be set free or the charges against them be examined. Without it, civil liberty ceases...
Among the great quotations about which the elect may need refreshing: King Ethelred's promise; extracts from the Magna Charta; the Virginia Bill of Rights; libertarian exhortations by J. S. Mill, Henry George, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, Thomas Paine, Emerson, Milton, General Smuts, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt...