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history. That many a war of words, many a battle of ideas, many a sanguinary contest has been fought ought across the centuries ^[[to secure]] from the crown and in the law protection to life, liberty and property.

We remember that "in the month of June A.D, 1215, the Barons of England with their retainers, a numerous host were encamped upon the grassy plain of Runnymede, to demand of their sovereign and if necessary to enforce by the sword an acknowledgment of their rights and liberties and a covenant to protect them. Unwilling to concede what was demanded yet unable to resist, King John finally signed and sealed and swore faithfully to observe the Great Charter." We know that in 1624, the petition of right was acceded to by the crown and 1689 the Bill of rights was passed, reaffirming the principles of Magna Charter and the rights of the subject fully recognized and given an enduring place in the law of the land. But the great struggle was to secure our independence, made necessary by the encroachments of the crown [[strikethrough]]upon[[/strikethrough]] upon the rights of the subject. The world has not witnessed a more sublime spectacle than that of a feeble colony of people severing the ties of language, friendship and kinship that bound them to the mother country. Stepping to the front rank of nations and flinging in the face of the world that immortal declaration of human rights

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