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applegrove

(118,600 posts) Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:18 PM Sep 2013

The Magna Carta was about increasing the barons‘ priviledge

and reducing taxes on them. How far the GOP has come from 1215!!!

I always thought the Magna Carta was about the little guy. But it seems it was only about low taxes and fewer regulations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

"Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges."

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The Magna Carta was about increasing the barons‘ priviledge (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2013 OP

Well it was - the little baron vs the king. jwirr Sep 2013 #1

Land tenure was still a requirement for voting in England until 1923. leveymg Sep 2013 #2

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. Well it was - the little baron vs the king.

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Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:21 PM

Sep 2013

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

2. Land tenure was still a requirement for voting in England until 1923.

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Sun Sep 15, 2013, 05:23 PM

Sep 2013

Yes, Magna Carta was most immediately about a sharing out of privilege, but it barely extended beyond the Lords and Barons to the Earls. What we conceive as democracy as universal adult suffrage is a remarkably short-term phenomenon.

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