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Noam Chomsky on the Shredding of Our Fundamental Rights and the Common Good
http://www.alternet.org/rights/156237/noam_chomsky_on_the_shredding_of_our_fundamental_rights_and_the_common_good/_310x220
Recent events trace a threatening trajectory, sufficiently so that it may be worthwhile to look ahead a few generations to the millennium anniversary of one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights: the issuance of Magna Carta, the charter of English liberties imposed on King John in 1215.
What we do right now, or fail to do, will determine what kind of world will greet that anniversary. It is not an attractive prospect not least because the Great Charter is being shredded before our eyes.
The first scholarly edition of the Magna Carta was published in 1759 by the English jurist William Blackstone, whose work was a source for U.S. constitutional law. It was entitled The Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest, following earlier practice. Both charters are highly significant today.
The first, the Charter of Liberties, is widely recognized to be the cornerstone of the fundamental rights of the English-speaking peoples or as Winston Churchill put it more expansively, the charter of every self-respecting man at any time in any land.
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Noam Chomsky on the Shredding of Our Fundamental Rights and the Common Good (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2012
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marmar
(77,081 posts)1. One day, Chomsky will be appreciated like he should.
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grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)3. Bring back habeus corpus.