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Magna Carta: everything you wanted to know

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The Strangest Use or Abuse of Magna Carter

Business owners in the UK have been saying that clause 61 of Magna Carter is going to allow them to argue against lockdown measures. The question was from the MacArthur clan is, have we still got the rights to lawful rebellion so we're just done? Chapter 61 empowered 25 barons to essentially rebel against the king if he broke Magna Carter. That chapter never made it into any of the subsequent versions of the charter and has not become part of the established law of the land.

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