Meet the Magna Carta - 1215
Foundation document for human freedom
They don't like to teach this one in school
The Magna Carta: "No free man shall be deprived of his liberty without judgement by his peers and due process of law"
It will be 800 years old in three and a half years. Maybe it's time we brushed it off and read it.
The expert being interviewed is Peter Linebaugh in one of my favorite historians.
Check out the book he wrote with Marcus Rediker: "The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic."
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