The Magna Carta was an important legal document in feudal England, where despotism oppressed the masses. Magna Carta, meaning ‘The Great Charter’, is one of the most renowned documents in the world, it was originally issued by King John of England as a response to political pressure from revolting barons in 1215. The Magna Carta established the principle that all men, including the monarchy, was subject to the law thus preventing arbitrary abuse of power. The Magna Carta remains the cornerstone of the British Constitution which led to the formation of the Australian parliament and its Constitution. However, in 21st Century Australia, the Magna Carta remains a largely futile text of archaic legislation, which nevertheless is filled with rich symbolism. One of the most poignant and famous articles of the Magna Carta (clause 29) that “No free …show more content…
This horrific genocide began with university quota limits for Jews and the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which stripped Jews of German citizenship to persecutions by pogroms and mass deportations to forced labour and death camps. Hitler warranted this racist legislation in Mein Kampf (1924), his defamatory work, “A Jew is and remains a typical parasite, a sponger who like a noxious bacillus keeps spreading as soon as a favourable medium invites him. And the effect of his existence is also like that of spongers: wherever he appears, the host people die out. …The Jew today is the great agitator for the complete destruction of Germany.