Harvard Law School paid just $27 for the document, which UK academics now think is the real thing.
  • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    19 days ago

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

      • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        19 days 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·
        19 days 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·
      19 days ago

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

      • SpaceShort@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        18 days ago

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