The Magna Carta Manifesto, Liberties and Commons for All

[Massimo A. Allamandola]

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10566.php

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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> **About The Magna Carta Manifesto, Liberties and Commons for All**
>
> The Magna Carta Manifesto shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty
> and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - the rights of habeas
> corpus, trial by jury, due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are
> being sidestepped. In providing a sweeping history of the 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,
> acclaimed author of such books as The London Hanged, visits primary sources to
> construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known
> contemporary companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created to protect
> the subsistence rights of the poor. 
>
> For a preview of the book see Amazon's Look Inside (TM) http://linkme2.net/f3
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