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8 - The Constitution of Rights

from Part I - Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2023

By
Peter Cane
Edited by
Peter Cane  and
H. Kumarasingham
Peter Cane
Affiliation:
Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University
H. Kumarasingham
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Summary

The year 2015 witnessed celebrations around the world of an event that took place 800 years earlier in a meadow west of the city of London near what is now Heathrow Airport. Then, the main participants were King John on the one side, and leading barons and prelates on the other. They had gathered to sign up formally to a document (which came to be known as Magna Carta) with the aim of forestalling violent rebellion against the monarchy. Eight centuries later, four provisions of the 1297 re-issue of Magna Carta still decorate the United Kingdom’s statute book even though the document was not a ‘statute’ (or, for that matter, a ‘law’) in the modern sense and the surviving provisions are of no practical significance.

Keywords

Magna CartaCokePetition of RightBill of Rights 1689BlackstoneDiceyUniversal Declaration of Human RightsEuropean Convention on Human RightsHuman Rights Act 1998
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The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom , pp. 195 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • The Constitution of Rights
  • Edited by Peter Cane, Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University, H. Kumarasingham, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
  • Online publication: 12 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277778.010
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  • The Constitution of Rights
  • Edited by Peter Cane, Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University, H. Kumarasingham, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
  • Online publication: 12 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277778.010
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  • The Constitution of Rights
  • Edited by Peter Cane, Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University, H. Kumarasingham, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
  • Online publication: 12 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277778.010
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