Last edited by pin; 29-10-2015 at 11:23 AM.
Thanks for posting about this. It's a piece of my heritage I've never managed to see and look forward to doing so next month.
And that the only surviving copy of the King's Writ will also be displayed...!
Last edited by Claire ex-ax; 29-10-2015 at 11:16 AM.
The British Library is an excellent resource for information on the Magna Carta, including an English translation of the original 63 clauses.
Magna Carta - The British Library
English translation of Magna Carta - The British Library
Political significance of the magna carta should be interesting in HK, especially the part about personal liberties. True, the original intent of the charter was protection of these baron's rights against the Crown, and not the protection of the common citizen. But its modern day legacy is the enshrinement of personal liberties vs the encroachment of the government.
Surely, HK government will ignore that? Hehehe.
And the BigLychee's take on it all.
HK prepares for wapentake and scutage frenzy | Big Lychee, Various Sectors
The big, tough, almighty and hyper-confident Chinese authorities were so nervous of the 600-year-old scrawled-Latin document that they (in effect) cancelled its recent public display in Beijing and Shanghai, confining it to British consular premises.
It is interesting that this document is being displayed in a city where the original articles are so systematically being eroded.
Article 35: “There shall be standard measures of wine, ale, and corn (the London quarter)”.
Just remember this next time you are served a glass of beer or wine that is smaller than 2 pints. This is where erosion of your rights gets you.
As the Magna Carta is all about the king being allowed to keep his job and his head as long as he lets the landed gentry do things the way they want to, it seems very much the sort of thing CY might be interested in ... plus ça change, and all that ...