Happy Magna Carta Day: Lift one high for Habeas Corpus

[annabanana]

The Writ of Habeas Corpus was born on this day in 1215 in Runnymeade Meadow, England.

[TexasObserver]

1. My sweet Lord. Oh, my Lord. I really wanna see ya.

[Tesha]

2. And died in America on September 11th, 2001.

(If not December 12th, 2000, for which a strong case could be made.)

Tesha

[annabanana]

3. 12/12/00 is my choice too. . . . n/t

[struggle4progress]

4. ... if we, or our justice, or our bailiffs, or any one of our servants shall have transgressed

against any one in any respect, or shall have broken one of the articles of peace or security, and our transgression shall have been shown to four barons of the aforesaid twenty five: those four barons shall come to us, or, if we are abroad, to our justice, showing to us our error; and they shall ask us to cause that error to be amended without delay. And if we do not amend that error, or, we being abroad, if our justice do not amend it within a term of forty days from the time when it was shown to us or, we being abroad, to our justice: the aforesaid four barons shall refer the matter to the remainder of the twenty five barons, and those twenty five barons, with the whole land in common, shall distrain and oppress us in every way in their power,--namely, by taking our castles, lands and possessions, and in every other way that they can, until amends shall have been made according to their judgment ... http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/magna2.html

... And there they launched in solid line
The first attack on Right Divine,
The curt uncompromising "Sign!'
They settled John at Runnymede ...
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/kipling.html