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Harvard Paid $27 For a 'Copy' of The Magna
Carta. It Turned Out to Be The Real Thing.

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Posted By: Beardo, 5/19/2025 10:21:27 PM

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original, British researchers said Thursday. Experts from King's College London and the University of East Anglia (UEA) said the document, which the US institution acquired in the 1940s for $27.50, is just one of seven from King Edward I's issue of Magna Carta in 1300 that still survive.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: crashnburn 5/19/2025 10:35:46 PM (No. 1952815)
And yet liberal woke universities, including Harvard, never miss an opportunity to trash the US Constitution.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Lala 5/19/2025 10:37:11 PM (No. 1952817)
Trash the Constitution and beg for money.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/19/2025 10:59:11 PM (No. 1952820)
Trash the Constitution, beg for money, and brainwash our young people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FLCracker 5/19/2025 11:16:53 PM (No. 1952827)
Harvard should trying reading it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Catherine 5/19/2025 11:22:56 PM (No. 1952828)
I smell a rat. Either it's not one of the real ones or someone stole one and sold it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Lawsy0 5/19/2025 11:54:34 PM (No. 1952835)
Q: Was the ink dry?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thefield 5/20/2025 1:21:44 AM (No. 1952849)
The value of yard sales.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/20/2025 5:55:39 AM (No. 1952869)
Even if Harvard had spent millions of "donor" dollars to secure the real thing, they'd still "value it" at $27.50.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: anniebc 5/20/2025 5:56:31 AM (No. 1952870)
Don't let their entitled terrorist students near it. They love tearing up stuff.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo 5/20/2025 6:57:52 AM (No. 1952891)
Cool. Now they can sell it and use the millions to continue to fund AntiSemitic groups. If our tax dollars aren't flowing into Harvard, they now have a sure bet income source to keep this Hamas lovers in Harvard and those pesky Jews out. Long live the Resistance!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: vhs68 5/20/2025 8:55:43 AM (No. 1952942)
So, what is the estimated value for this document today? Wouldn't that be an important addition to this article?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: kono 5/20/2025 9:30:21 AM (No. 1952955)
While they also paid Billions for DEI, wokeness, and hatred of Israel, which are worth about a buck seventy five, combined.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: DVC 5/20/2025 10:38:49 AM (No. 1952990)
Heck of an "attic find".
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 5/20/2025 10:42:26 AM (No. 1952992)
Re #4, the Magna Carta isn't any sort of breakthru for individual rights, not at all. It provides for the duke, earls, barons, etc - the minor royalty to have rights, NOT the ordinary man. It is the first time that a king had to temper his absolute power, but certainly not against the common man, who still had no rights, only the upper crust who had the power to actually rise up and kill the king was given some official standing.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: franco 5/20/2025 12:16:02 PM (No. 1953042)
Good. So we can cut Harvard's taxpayer support by a commensurate amount.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: snakeoil 5/20/2025 12:39:04 PM (No. 1953053)
Wonder how the people who paid really big bucks for Hunter's works of art feel.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/20/2025 12:43:03 PM (No. 1953058)
#14, a summary of the Magna Carta, per Duck AI, "The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, is a foundational document that limited the powers of the English king and established certain legal rights for subjects, including protection from unlawful imprisonment and the right to a fair trial. It is often considered a cornerstone of modern democracy and the rule of law." Our Constitution has, at its core, the principles of the Magna Carta.
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