Comments by "Michael DeBlone" (@michaeldeblone1066) on "Genius of Western Civilisation - Ep. 3: The Rule of Law (4K) [6-part Celebration of The West]" video.

  1. The rise of the lawyers. And to this day they still don't tend to be from poor backgrounds. Some wider historical context is in order. I always find it quite remarkable how anybody English can identify this period along lines of freedom given the status of the nation circa 1215 (Agincourt still two centuries away at that juncture). All free men is gender specific and no doubt not meeting the standards of wokery which this documentary is essentially doing battle with. At least you can breath a sigh of relief there due to the general lack of critical thinking at large these days. King John's unpopularity was firmly cemented via the power greedy, war loving barons exploiting his weaknesses once he had successfully raised the taxes to free his longtime absentee elder brother (Richard the Lionheart). John Softsword Lackland Plantagenet took the knee to the king of France and Langton (himself a powerful baron) was removed from office for over stepping the authority of archbishop, his great charter annulled by the Pope. Magna Carta was updated and legitimised with a re-write in 1217. All clauses of the forest from the original collated into a separate Law of the Forest, commonly known as Forest Law. Hence the saying 'One law for them and another for us'. The word 'Law' itself is Danish in origin, the English or rather Anglo-Saxon equivalent being 'Doom'. The latter being preferred by William the Conqueror when putting together his great inventory for taxation primarily so that Saxon people understood what he intended.
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  2. Well it inspired an excellent response here at least.
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