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January 28, 2011
Professor Nicholas Vincent, “Magna Carta in the 21st Century: The View from Canterbury”, Chancellor’s Lecture, University of Kent
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MC Most Famous Document in English, perhaps World History
Cornerstone of Liberties; Bulwark of the Constitution
Already so well known in Seventeenth Century that mocked by Oliver Cromwell as Magna Farta: according to Lord Clarendon, ‘When (the judges) with all humility mentioned the law, and Magna Charta, Cromwell told them their Magna Farta should not control his actions…’
Want to approach it today via two themes: Firstly Magna Carta viewed not as a product of twelfth and thirteenth century government, as a peace treaty between King and barons, but as an artifact and object still with us in the twenty first century. Secondly, I want to pinpoint the particular significance that Canterbury and Kent played both in the issue of the charter in 1215 and for its subsequent acceptance into English law
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