2025-05-14
Historian David Starkey isn't just a national treasure, he's perfectly capable of reviewing the broad sweep of history to pinpoint the points of fundamental change in practical legal government.
We may now be accustomed to the idea of "legal" equating to "compliance to somebody else's rules" or even nowadays "corrupt enforcement of invalid rules" but it was not ever thus. So where did it all go wrong?
"What has happened to the very meaning of the word 'Democracy'?"
"Anglo-Saxon England was astonishingly well administered"
"If that Magna Carta had survived we would have gone the way of Poland ... "
"It establishes that wonderful idea of the Middle Ages ... that you pay taxation in return for the redress of grievance ... "
"It works because it's a very lightly modified version of the English Constitution ... "
" ... we were able to take it [our Constitution] for granted ... because it was so successful ... "
Believe me, you don't want to miss this!
(104 minutes)
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