Charta

For the Magna Charta is a most impressive example of how our people -- for I want you to understand that I am one of your people just as well as you are yourself; that is a new doctrine to some extent.

The Charter of Liberty 1916

But putting the matter as mildly as I know how-the first clause of Magna Charta is a cry for relief not against Rome and tyranny, but against royal tyranny.

The Charter of Liberty 1916

As Edward Coke was moved to say in 1628, "Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign."

The 1990 Ontario Budget 1990

Now, Sir, since the warp and woof of modern circumstance are woven in no small part by the busy toilers whose hands are now still, it seems to me that it would be fatuous on our part as Canadians to face the future without remembering that we share in all this rich inheritance; we are of the same lineage as those who fought at Cressy and Agincourt and Waterloo and Balaclava; the same lineage as those who wrung the Magna Charta from the reluctant King and resisted even to the death every unwarrantable invasion of personal rights and privileges; the same lineage as those who gave lustre to the Court of Elizabeth and made the Victorian era the pride of all succeeding generations; the same lineage as those who were the leaders of commercial enterprise, the pioneers of scientific achievement, the heralds of truth in the lands of heathen blindness.

Our National Outlook 1904

The charter is very long and some of it you would find difficult to understand, but I will tell you a few of the things in it, for the Magna Charta is the foundation of all our laws and liberty.

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

Constitution, known as the Charta, was laid before the King, and sanctioned by him; on the 30th, the Treaty of Paris was signed by the representatives of France and of all the great Powers.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

The Constitution promulgated by King Louis XVIII. on the 4th of June, 1814, and known as the Charta, [204] was well received by the French nation.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Jesus) a temporibus antiquis (from ancient times); that he himself, in company with other bishops and abbots, had examined it and found it genuine, and that VII, and afterwards publicly for the veneration of the faithful; he proclaimed at the same time an indulgence for pilgrims who should come to honour it (the "Charta" is printed by

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The original of that clause (paragraph 29 of Magna Charta) expressly said that “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or ... in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010

The original of that clause (paragraph 29 of Magna Charta) expressly said that “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or ... in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010