Quote Originally Posted by Odin
For me perhaps I am being to nationalist in my thinking but this is a document of historical importance to England. In my mind its a cultural item that should be embraced by the population as historically signifigant and cherished.

The fact that it is up for private sale bothers me, I dont dispute the validity of the process. I dont know the coffee this morning was pretty good, maybe i gotten bitten by the idealist I have worked years to suppress.
I don't know, as the Lawyer says, we have several copies already in Blighty and a lot of the English still don't know what the Magna Carta is. I don't think it's all that important really, beyond curtailing the power of the monarch a tiny bit. It shows a clawing back of a certain amount of what we lost in 1066.