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The Magna Carta

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Dispositive Clauses of the Charter of England

Charter is entirely new. It pretended it was reasserting ancient law, but I mean they're absolutely no equivalent to this huge detail in which royal government is now regulated. And the idea that the king must have a deuteronomy, he must have a law that he himself observes. That's why it's granted not to someone who can, as it were, take it away. The opening words of the actual dispositive clauses are we grant to God that the church of England shall be free. In order that nobody then can step in and say, well, actually, I have the authority to rescind this.

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