Historical documents

[Odin]

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.

Well I guess my line of thinking is somewhat flawed given where we are in 2007, I have found an appaling lack of connection to the past in my own country.

that said i'd hate to see a document of state (at one point thats what this was) of historical signifigance end up in a private collection, even if there are 2-3 laying around.

[AntiochusIII]

that said i'd hate to see a document of state (at one point thats what this was) of historical signifigance end up in a private collection, even if there are 2-3 laying around.

Agreed. If only for safekeeping and future historical studies. Old copies have much more -historical- value than the texts on them. Who knows what new methods would come up to study said documents and what new knowledge we might glean from it?

How are we supposed to preserve knowledge for mankind if the sources of said knowledge are sold to the highest bidder into a private museum of some rich dude who probably considered them just prestige pieces?

[InsaneApache]

So she didn't die in vain after all.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Wow... next we'll be auctioning out the actual freedom spoken of in that document...

Wait, we already have: "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions ... except by the lawful judgement of his peers" *cough* Terror laws and Patriot act *cough*