For protestants. Then there was a provision, excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed for crucial and unusual punishments inflicted. This was saying the english legal system could not crush a person financially and it could not torture a person. And these were obviously principles that would march on. In the next century after american independence states passed their own bills of rights and the most famous of them was by the largest most important state that was virginia in the spring and summer of 1776 known as the declaration of right. And the man who wrote this was george mason. Now george mason, he was an interesting character. He was a planter, he was a neighbor of George Washington, the two of them hunted foxes together. He has a beautiful house, gunston hall, which is opened to tourists in virginia. It has just a lovely great hall that he commissioned and a lot of men of the founding generation deplored any expression of ambition. You werent supposed
People to come home to. So he has that, and poly is very close to him and comes over when he is dying and comes over when he dies. On social media and other things, Benjamin Franklin believed very strongly that the free flow of ideas and free opinion of spread of ideas would empower people and eventually, in a very raggedy way, lead to more democracy, more liberties, more individual empowerment. He believed if there were 11 papers, there was room for a 12th. He believed nobody should control the free flow of information. He helped instill in americas dna by bringing thomas paine over, for example, and helping paine, you know, print pamphlets and hand them out on the Street Corner. He was able and by the way, thomas paine Benjamin Franklin, they are like the first bloggers in a way. I mean, these are pamphleteers and they are spreading ideas. Nowadays if you look at china, which is once again cracking down on the free flow of ideas, and if you look at what the free flow of ideas is doin
It doesnt mean a wealthy commoner, even a wealthy one, but this does set up the principle of trial by jury, judgment of his peers. It also says the lawful judgment of his peers. So theres an implication of due process of law even as early as 1215. If youre going to be imprisoned or punished, you have to be judged by your peers and there has to be some lawful reason for it. Now, there would be many holes in this over the years, but this principle is being laid down. Magna carta also says barons can petition to have transgressions regressed. They can go to the king with their petitions, with their complains, and he has to listen to them, doesnt have to answer them, doesnt have to satisfy them but he has to listen to them. And that again, is a very important point, the right to petition about your grievances. The next step in this history is 1688. We have another unpopular king in england, this is james ii. He was the last king of the house of stewart. He had risen to the throne after the
Convert to catholicism and he also had a son. Now in england in 1688 meant the spanish armada and louis xiv. The spanish armada was history but louis xiv was very much alive. And england could swallow a Catholic King but they could not swallow a string of them. So after james had a son in 1688 the nation rose up and offered the crown to william of orange who was james nephew and soninlaw. Hed married his elder daughter mary. The family the house of stewart was sort of like sopranos in turn of its internal dynamics. And william accepted as a condition of being king of england a bill of rights which parliament passed in 1689. These were going to be the rules for his rule, he was announcing that these were the principles that would guide him. And this was an advance on the magna carta. The right of petition was extended beyond barons, trial by jury was reaffirmed, especially in trials for high treason. The english bill of rights guaranteed freedom of speech in parliament and the right of
In defense and said why would you go in someones house and do that to them. Wilkins described the day she lost her daughter and fought to stay alive. After she broke the bottle over my head and stabbed me. I remember thinking of aurora and feeling like i really i just thought of her and i felt i wanted to survive. Reporter prosecutors said that lane has been telling everyone that she was pregnant and she was due in november of 2014. She had a baby shower and she named he pretend son james. She already had two teenage daughters at the time that this happened. Kim no preparation for that. Thats for sure. It could be mid to Late Afternoon before a section of i 70 will be reopened. It continues 8 miles east of glenwood springs. Two rock slides happened within 24 hours. No one was injured. Motorists who need to go through the area are being detoured north on colorado 131. West on u. S. 40 to craig. And south on colorado 13 to rifle and back i70. This adds 146 miles and about three hours to