[Sca-cooks] pre-Magna-Carta reigns

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Adamantius complained:
> >We're in the midst of another "pre-Magna-Carta" reign here in the  
> >East. I just wish the people who say that had actually read Magna  
> >Carta and knew what is was, and what it signified. 'Nuff said...

Someone mentioned this weekend in a discussion that John supposedly put 
the rights of the common man, such as "A freeman shall not be amerced 
for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the
offense", and others, into the Magna Carta, assuming that would cause 
the barons to reject it; and when they did not, he enforced them just to 
annoy the barons. I like it.

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"'In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for 
years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." - _Harvey_, by Mary Chase