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by RICHARD THOMSON., RICHARD THOMSON

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } LEATHER BOUND EDITION OF AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON THE MAGNA CHARTA OF KING JOHN by RICHARD THOMSON Published Legal Classics Library, Special Edition, 1982. (Reprint of London 1829 edition) Beautifully designed green leather covers with brass-die 22k stampings. Spine has 4 raised bands, 22k stampings. Edges 22k gilt. Silk page marker. 612 pages. Colorful marbled endleaves. Very good hardcover. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. The classic work of moral, political, and legal philosophy and human rights. 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 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. At the end of the 16th century, there was an upsurge in interest in Magna Carta. Lawyers and historians at the time believed that there was an ancient English c

• Publisher: The Legal Classics Library
• Year: 1982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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