Word: magnas
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...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...
...encyclical accepted the necessity of labor unions and the occasional justification of strikes, urged decent wage standards. State regulation of industry, more equal distribution of wealth, broader ownership of property, and much else that was "radical" then. Forty years later, calling Rerum Novarum "the Magna Charta of all Catholic activity in the social sphere," Pius XI confirmed, developed and enlarged it in Quadragesimo Anno...
...that has been three years a-gathering, the Commission declared that free competition in the U.S. radio industry was impossible so long as the three great networks dominated the 883 U.S. stations as completely as in recent years. In eight revolutionary new decrees, FCC offered what it called a "Magna Charta for American broadcasting stations...