HW: Tim's liberty

Gordon Hundley drgoon at MAC.COM
Mon Apr 16 18:28:21 EDT 2007


On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:18 AM, M Holmes wrote:

> I saw an original of the Magna Carta recently. The notes at the  
> display
> said that only 4 of the original 40 freedoms guaranteed by the  
> document
> still exist, and Labour is trying to abolish two of those.

If memory serves, those freedoms were never conferred by the Magna  
Carta on common people, simply on clergy and nobility. But I follow  
your point.

Gordon.



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