Please post at least three sentences here once you have completed the reading. At least one of your sentences must focus on Magna Carta, but you can also ask questions about/find resources about China if that seems interesting to you.
Remember to use the format for posting a link that we went over in class (it's on the assignments page).
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I was wondering why was the first Emperor of China's tomb has not been excavated? Because the authorities know where it is so I was unsure as to why they wouldn't have been excavated when this discovery was made.
The reading also mentioned that the figures of the Terra Cotta warriors each had a different facial expression and had their own ranking the army. The author said that this showed a "startling degree of individualism". Did China not exercise individualism?
Also the reading says that historically, politically, philisophically and artistically for a 1000 years Chang'an was Athens and Rome combined? How so? I know it said historically, artistically, philisophically and politically but what how?
In the reading it mentioned barons. I wasn't sure what barons were, so I did some research. I found that baron was a specific title for someone who had nobility. I also found that means "noble man".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron
I also found that the rank of nobility of a baron depends on the nation. An example of this is in Japan, where barons are at the "bottom rung" of nobility. I also thought it was interesting that women can be barons, they are called baronesses of they are.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-baron.htm
In the Magna Carta wikipedia article it mentions Habeas corpus and I wasn't sure what that was so I looked it up.
Habaes Corpus is the name or a writ or legal action that allows someone to seek relief from unlawful detention of himself or another person. This writ has historically been an important instrument for safegaurding individual freedom against arbitrary state action. This is the type of action that the barons took against King John of England.
The definiton was copied from wikipedia.
Here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
One question that I have that I could not easily answer is: did later kings try to get rid of the Magna Carta?
I found this site, too. At the bottom, it talks about the influence the Magna Carta had on our Constitution.
I was wondering about the role of barons. From the Wikipedia article I found that barons were the lowest level of noble men. It wasn't clear, but it sounded like a person make a barony if they had a writ of summons (which allowed someone to join a peer in Parliament) or a letters patent (which was a document with basically the same purpose).
While I was reading the Wikipedia article, I noticed that it mentioned the Writ of Habaes Corpus. I remember reading about it last year while studying the Constitution; I don't really remember what it is about.
I found out from lectlaw.com
that the writ is "a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody"
It also said that the petition must show that the court who gave the prisoner the sentence made a legal/factual error.
This led me to wonder what the structure of the court/legal punishments were in 1215 England (time of the Magna Carta) I didn't really find a lot on this subject, but i found a picture at this link
I will continue to look into this subject
“It required the King to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law.” What specific laws?
Similarities in our laws and the Magna Carta:
Smiliarities
Habeus Corpus also interested me, but I was able to learn more about it through Hillary's and Danielle's blog posts.
I also wanted to find out who wrote the Magna Carta- was there a Thomas Jefferson-like figure, or was it a group?
I found that the credit mostly goes to an Archbishop, Stephen Langton, and was aided by the more influential barrons. This was another site with good information about him.
From the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta, I was just wondering, What did the king do to avoid this document being enforced? Were there many people on his side?
Also from the PDF document, it mentioned the city wall and old mosque being in Chinese Architecture. I wanted to research this.
Here is the Great Mosque in Xi'an, China.
Here is the north side of the city wall in Xi'an, China.
Here is another view of that same wall around the city of Xi'an, China.
In the reading it mentions Runnymede as the place where the Magna Carta was signed, so I decided to find where Runnymede is located:
Map of Runnymede
In looking for that I found that there is a memorial to the signing of the Magna Carta:
Here is a picture
Another picture here
On the wikipedia page it says that Magna Carta was "the first document to be forced onto an English King by his subjects to attempt to limit his powers by law" and the english kings have been around for awhile. So I was wondering what took the subjects so long to come up with this idea?
I also looked up King John. It turns out that he was the son of Henry II and Eleanor Aquitaine and the brother of Richard the Lionheart. The link has more information on his life.
A few things I was thinking about:
Were the future kings of England mad about the Magna Carte? Were they upset that John signed it? Or would they not know that they could have had absolute power? I tried to look up information on it briefly but found nothing of interest. I also thought about Robert Gifford's question about why China never developed a check and balance system for it's rulers. I think it is because the English people were upset with the way the kings were ruling them and they caused a rebellion whereas the Chinese didn't seem to have that sort of thing going on. I couldn't really find anything about an outright rebellion against the rulers with the majority of the state behind it.
I was interested in what the Manga Carta said. Here is a copy of what the Manga Carta said. One rule I found interesting was number 30: No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent. I thought this was "like" the third amendment that says No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
A person working for the government is now not allowed to take advantage of others just because they work for the government.
Few rules mention women, but this rule mentions marriage: (6) Heirs may be given in marriage, but not to someone of lower social standing. Before a marriage takes place, it shall be' made known to the heir's next-of-kin.
So, if a husband dies, the wife would need to marry the man's closest male realative. That shows something of how this society valued women.
First off I have a question. How does one excommunicate and take lands from the King of England (especially the Pope, who didn't have a great amount of military power)?
Then, I realized I'd never heard of this "John of England" character.
John of England was the younger brother of Richard the Lionhearted, and suceded him as ruler. John and Richard had originally gotten along, however, when Richard named his nephew the heir to the throne, John got mad and rebelled (with King Phillip II of France helping him).
The rebellion failed, and John was exiled. However, Richard's nephew (the heir to the throne) was soon captured and Richard was forced to reconcile with John, and appoint him the heir. He had to do this because he didn't have anybody else to be his heir.
It also turns out that the reason the pope was mad at him was because.... When a high ranking bishop died, John replaced him with one of his own men, even though the pope (Innocent III) wanted one of his own bishops for the job again.
I got my information from Here
Sorry about the late posting, I had a Jazz Band concert and a Science project due tomorrow, and I completely forgot about this.
While reading I came across the Villeins and had no clue who they were, so i did some research. Villeins were not slaves, and were named as freemen and freewomen in medieval documents, but they were not free. Everything they posesed was owned by the lord of the manor. They also weren't allowed to leave the manor, so that means they werent able to go on pilgrimages.
You can find more about the Villein's at
The Villein's
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While I was reading the Wikipedia page on the Magna Carta, and I was interested in the line about the kings and people being "Bound by the Law." In the interest on this, I looked at the Rule of law link Rule of Law, it said that the law code was the concept of "No one is above the Law." I found this interesting because the kings would make more laws, and then they would abide by the laws they made. If any one broke any laws, they were putting themselves "above the Law."
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