Excavations


... nothing is more essential to public interest than the preservation of public liberty.

- David Hume



Thursday, July 3, 2014

An inelegant tweet

Harper’s Magna Carta is nothing but a Magna Farta.[1]





[1]  This link to political flatulence was first used in the English House of Commons in 1667.  See Anne Pallister, Magna Carta: The Heritage of Liberty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. 29,30.

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