FROM RUNNYMEDE TO COUNTY MEATH—MAGNA CARTA AND MAGNA CARTA HIBERNIAE
By James K. Meighan Convicted of sabotage and conspiracy at the Rivonia trials in South Africa, on 20 April 1964 Nelson Mandela, while awaiting a potential sentence of death, proclaimed from the dock his respect for and belief in the Magna Carta by observing that the charter was ‘held in veneration by democrats’ worldwide. The … Read more