Magna Carta Quotes
We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.
Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance.
Magna Carta, Sealed by John [John Lackland], c. 1167-1216, King of England, June 15, 1215
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This quotation is a more sophisticated statement of the Magna Carta clause {583716}. Note that English law allowed redress against all other people including religions officials and government temporal officers. And everyone was entitled to justice and access to the courts including outlaws or people who have been excommunicated. In many countries these people do not have the protection of the law. This tradition allows prisoners in jail to sue the jailers for example. And imagine a person who had been excommunicated as a heretic and yet allowed to live turning around and suing clerics who were persecuting him in an Islamic nation other than Turkey.
Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance
The power structure of England and the English administrators of South Africa were strong advocates of racial equality at the beginning of the 19th century. They insisted on equal administration of law. However the Boer white population could think of nothing more absurd. In a sense the Boers were much like the Southern Whites at the same time. The South African government however could not enforce its equality policies in the rural area – the majority of South Africa at the time. When democracy and self rule came to South Africa, the racially moderating force of the English was minimized and the majority of South Africans wanted a racially segregated society. Apartheid resulted.
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift and impartial justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood by their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.
