Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Magna Carta

Some someone will be willing to pony up $20-30 million for an Edward III era Magna Carta... Now we all remember the Magna Carta, the first document to frame the basic rules of law by which, in many ways, we are still governed. Habeas Corpus and all that, so to speak.

So someone will, according to a Sotheby's estimate, pay $20-30 million for this historic document whilst our Senate, that august deliberative body, sold habeas corpus down the river for the price of one man's vanity.

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