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He saw Harris arguing with another captive about medieval history and the Magna Carta, and he once found the marine sitting with his hands parted as if holding a book, staring at them and mumbling to himself.† (source)
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He was vulnerable there, because to me they were all pretty much alike—Voltaire and Moliere and the laws of motion and the Magna Carta and the Pathetic Fallacy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles—and I worked indiscriminately on all of them.† (source)
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So long as the vast population doesn't wander about quoting the Magna Carta and the Constitution, it's all right.† (source)
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She thought, each time, that she'd written the Magna Carta.† (source)
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They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed—never mind what it was—as opposed to discussing birth control.† (source)
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It's in the Magna Carta, down in the small print or, rather, the tiny writing.† (source)
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The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.† (source)
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And more to this the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and the King's own Coronation Oath!† (source)
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But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.† (source)
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Finally the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.† (source)
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The conferring members being met, let their business be to frame a CONTINENTAL CHARTER, or Charter of the United Colonies; (answering to what is called the Magna Carta of England) fixing the number and manner of choosing members of Congress, members of Assembly, with their date of sitting, and drawing the line of business and jurisdiction between them: (Always remembering, that our strength is continental, not provincial:) Securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things, the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; with such other matter as is necessary for a charter to contain.† (source)
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The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, and the Bill of Rights are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.† (source)
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But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.† (source)
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Their clerks put together the full working Magna Carta a month later.† (source)
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"You know, Mr. Black, I thought I knew all of the Magna Carta, but I've never heard of these clauses," said Sir Geoffrey.† (source)
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