Bagginski
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Semi-next-level, seeing as how Magna Carta was a set of limitations imposed on a monarch *by his supporters in conquest* to prevent him from screwing THEM. Any ‘trickle-down’ effects to the commons has been stripped of nutrients & fed on a glacial timeline. Hereditary nobility…can’t think of much more useless, besides the vacuous certainty of “quality” held in common by them.
Evolution of the British Common Law, OTOH, has gone hand-in-hand with the numerous civil wars & popular uprisings that’ve afflicted Britain (and the US) more-or-less the whole time.
Kevin Phillips’ The Cousins War views Anglo American history from he viewpoint of the civil wars…and he makes a case for the US revolution & the Slaver rebellion as sister conflicts to the fights in England (following the Puritain & Cavalier migrations), carried to the NewWorld, because ‘why not?’ Well worth reading, I thought.
ZB: Phillips has little name-recognition now, but he’s the ‘author’ of Nixon’s infamous southern strategy & was influential in Reagan’s first term…but has since been taking apart the Bush family dynasty (‘American Dynasty’?), the role of evangelical religion & the power of financial institutions to Earl national policy (among others). He was thrown under the bus long before MAGA went looking for scapegoats