Bibliograph

The Magna Carta manifesto, liberties and commons for all, Peter Linebaugh

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The Magna Carta manifesto, liberties and commons for all, Peter Linebaugh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-320) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Magna Carta manifesto

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

147985359

Responsibility statement

Peter Linebaugh

Sub title

liberties and commons for all

Summary

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor

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