[Sca-cooks] pre-Magna-Carta reigns
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Nov 28 11:57:56 PST 2005
On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>> 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.
I like it, too. That'll teach them to wave the rights of the freeman
around like a flag, and I'll bet many of them thought it a small
price to pay to have some of their own traditional freedoms restored.
Curia, anyone?
Adamantius
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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