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While Magna Carta did not raise the curtain on a libertarian ... connects civilized with barbarous society." (I found Jeffrey's quotes in Mark Salber Phillips's introduction to Liberty Fund's ...
Conversely, in a case about excessive fines, the conservative Eleventh Circuit quotes a distinguished legal historian’s observation that “[v]ery likely there was no clause in Magna Carta more ...
A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor ...
Tests have established that a supposedly "unofficial" copy of the Magna Carta resting in the files of the Harvard Law School library for decades is an original, and, "one of the world's most ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna ...
Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...
Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded ...
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two ...
It had been labeled as a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta, "somewhat rubbed and damp-stained," according to the archive's description. But Carpenter knew almost immediately when he opened the document ...