[geeks] 4th Amendment Gone

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:55:46PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > "After the king signed the Magna Carta and granted power back to the
> > people, he woke up, said, 'I made a mistake and need to get it back,' "
> 
> Not really true. King John did it because he wanted to. His brother,
> Richard "The Lionhearted", came back and tried to undo it.......

Isn't it closer to the truth to say that John Plantagenet signed the
Magna Carta because his barons put it in front of him and said, "Sign
this or we'll kill you"?  Certainly that's the way I learned it in
history class in school in England.



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