<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Glenn McKnight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Magna Carta</blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​I was just watching the excellent new British tv series on the Plantagenets last night. It's evident the Magna ​Carta was just the start of the story. It was only the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisions_of_Oxford">Provisions of Oxford</a> that really established some kind of constitutionally constraints on the monarchy. Nevertheless a top-down process somewhat akin to the NMI :)  While they were eventually all annulled, the effect was to establish the concept and practice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law">common law</a> - perhaps analogous to the ms process :):)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">j</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie  <span id="gc-number-0" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>WWWhatsup NYC - <a href="http://wwwhatsup.com" target="_blank">http://wwwhatsup.com</a><br> <a href="http://pinstand.com" target="_blank">http://pinstand.com</a> - <a href="http://punkcast.com" target="_blank">http://punkcast.com</a><br> VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - <a href="http://isoc-ny.org" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org</a><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div>
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