About the Magna Carta: I was comparing it with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. (Sorry, I had multiple topics in the same paragraph.) I think those two documents have a similarity in that both are against absolute power by a ruler.
About the Gettysburg Address: I agree with your description of it. On Saturday, November 16, 2013 3:31:58 PM UTC-8, Bear wrote: > > I can't say I agree with your assessment of the Magna Carta. > To compare the two document is difficult at best. The Magna Carta was > Written some 650 years before the Gettysburg Address. And for very > different reasons. > One a legal contract between a king and his nobles and another a speech by > a politician during a time of war. > > Again the the document that has become known as the U.S. Declaration of > Independence is very different to the Gettysburg Address. I was a proforma > declaration of war. > > The Gettysburg address was a speech given to bolster a was weary people > and had no real political power. Just emotional. A speech that hit a note > and has been carried down by historians. > > That's my outsider's view. > Bear > > > > On 16 November 2013 17:52, jrl <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Just now I looked up the text of the Gettysburg Address speech, and the >> text of my more favorite document which is the U.S. Declaration of >> Independence. I don't care much about the Gettysburg Address speech, but I >> feel that the U.S. Declaration of Independence document really does say >> substantial things. It's worth reading in present times too. A year ago I >> studied the Magna Carta. I find the U.S. Declaration of Independence >> easier to relate to, and it is probably the better document, and more >> useful, than the Magna Carta. I haven't made much progress with the U.S. >> Constitution yet. >> >> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
