Harvard Law School paid just $27 for the document, which UK academics now think is the real thing.
  • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Let’s hope displaying an original Magna Carta publically in the US inspires resistance against the Trump regime.

      • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Which itself could inspire resistance to it. Especially if the displaying of the Magna Carta doesn’t officially have anything to do with Trump (which it does not).

      • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        There are several “originals” of the Magna Carta. This is only one of them. The British library has two.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Why would it? You already have your own import documents to inspire you, and no one’s doing anything

      • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I’m not American. I’m hoping to inspire Americans with my comments. There are people doing something. There’s 50501, for example.