Magna Carta Is Going on the Auction Block
James Barron writes in The New York Times:
The 2,500 words fill a page that is a couple of inches shorter than this one, but almost as wide. The faded letters in Latin are unreadable in places. Something that looks like a scraggly, russet-colored tail hangs from the bottom.More here.
It is the document that laid the foundation for fundamental principles of English law. Angry colonists complained long before the Boston Tea Party that King George III had violated it. The men who drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights borrowed from it.
It is Magna Carta, agreed to by King John of England in 1215 and revised and reaffirmed through the 13th century. The tail dangling off the page is a royal seal.
And it is about to go on sale.
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posted by Fergie @ 9/24/2007 10:31:00 PM
1 Comments:
Shhhh. No one tell president Bush - I hear he's looking for a new supply of toilet paper once he runs out of the US constitution.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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