CAS PO 191 Lecture Notes - Ex Parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan, Excessive Bail Clause

• School: Boston University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: CAS PO 191
• Professor: Judith Swanson

Document Summary

First continental congress to restore rights lost under the coercive legislation of. Parliament: the english held that liberties of england had existed from time outside of mind; it was supposed that they could be rediscovered, by historical research if need be, and re- established where they had been abrogated. In this thought-world, even magna carta was but the restatement of the liberties vouchsafed to englishmen from the first. The idea was so deeply imprinted that it survived transplantation to the american colonies: literal v symbolic meaning, literal. : associated with concrete rights enforced by barons against monarchy. Unit 1, question 2, research, magna carta: symbolic of the people and their representatives. Abbots, earls, and great barons, individually, by our letters. Unit 1, question 2, research, magna carta law of englad; for a tenement of wales; for tenement of the marches, according to the law of the marshes.