Magna Carta book
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“There is no clear set of rules for the financial obligations of the barons or the clergy. The king could finance wars by taking money from the barons. John's nephew, King Arthur, was the heir to the throne. That's an important point of hist…”
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▶ 11:46
What's the background of this? Well, it all starts, goes back to the Magna Carta of 1215. And back then it was basically the barons wanted to make sure they had rights versus the king. You know, the king allegedly owns everything and the ba…
▶ 12:43
There is no clear set of rules for the financial obligations of the barons or the clergy. The king could finance wars by taking money from the barons. John's nephew, King Arthur, was the heir to the throne. That's an important point of hist…
▶ 13:15
and that's what led to the Magna Carta. And the articles the barons laid out in their demands, they had some clauses, and I'll just go through a few of them. The king and the government were not above the law. It's the first time that had e…
▶ 14:17
In the Magna Carta, two of the clauses, number 12 and 14, actually set a rate and address the management of how the scuttage process works. So they formalized the draft dodging. There's some judicial reforms. King John had used royal discre…
▶ 14:51
our own bill of rights or to the british bill of rights and our own so that was a big deal um there's a bunch in there about the royal forests uh royal forests were used for hunting and resources uh that didn't work out too well that became…
▶ 15:27
I'm going to share the screen again. Okay, are we up there? Yep. Okay, a lot of these clauses have expired, but there's three here. This section in Wikipedia talks about the clauses remaining in English law. I'm just going to look at the sc…
▶ 16:07
We have granted also and given to all the freemen of our realm, for us and our heirs, for ever these liberties underwritten, to have and to hold them and their heirs, to us and our heirs forever. Second part, number nine, still there. Remem…
▶ 16:40
And all other cities, boroughs, towns, and the barons of the five ports and all other ports shall have their liberties and free customs. They specifically singled out the city of London in the Magna Carta as being unique and different, havi…
▶ 17:12
or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, by the law or by the law of the land, we will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right. So those…
▶ 24:23
So some of the myths around the City of London are based on some real truth. It's always had a carve-out. And the City of London, of course, played a key role in events like the signing of the Magna Carta and later on what's called the Peas…