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...cloak about her, crying, "Honi soit qui mat y pense!', which, being translated, means: 'Thy need is greater than mine!' The Queen graciously responded, 'Dieu et mon droit!', which translated means, 'My God, you are right!' This incident is called the Magna Charta...
...conference at Whitby in 664 the Roman party gained the ascendancy . . . The Anglican Church, however, never lost its identity as the English Church . . . The term "The Church of England" is used in the first clause of the Magna Charta, drawn up in 1215. As national feeling grew in Great Britain, the clergy and people began to chafe under the yoke of papal supremacy...
...unification? It is not actually a continent; it is a relatively small peninsula of vast Eurasia. It is marked off from Asia not by geography but by its heritage: Greek art and intellect, Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border, it has included the Slavs and Magyars of Eastern Europe when they chose to accept the European...
...employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers of the right to strike over anything but questions of wages, hours, work requirements and work conditions; strikes over any question of union security would be unfair labor practices. These rules drastically revised the so-called "Magna Charta of Labor"-the Wagner Act. By giving employers the right to ask for court injunctions when confronted by an "unlawful strike," the bill drastically revised the Norris-La Guardia Act. It attacked Communist union influence by barring not only Communists, but even ex-Communists and party-liners, from holding union...
...Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...