Magna Carta and human rights

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La Magna Carta

by Charles West on October 4, 2014

A few days ago, the UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that a future Conservative government would revoke legislation that embeds the European Convention on Human Rights into British law. Since then, leading members of the current

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