BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Archives -- Rotunda

DC -- Natl Archives -- Rotunda:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ROTUND_080206_32.JPG: The rotunda did *not* feature the Constitution. I asked the Chief Archivist if the document was taken off display to time with the new "National Treasure" release (the first one revolved around stealing the Declaration of Independence). He laughed and said no. Sign: Case Improvements: The National Archives is making improvements to the display of the Constitution of the United States. While the work in underway, the Constitution is not on display. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check our website, www.archives.gov, for updates.
2. ROTUND_080311_034.JPG: The Charters of Freedom cases had been emptied for the night so you could see the tracks that they were moved away on. I asked the Chief Archivist if the document was taken off display to time with the new "National Treasure" release (the first one revolved around stealing the Declaration of Independence). He laughed and said no. Sign: Case Improvements: The National Archives is making improvements to the display of the Constitution of the United States. While the work in underway, the Constitution is not on display. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please check our website, www.archives.gov, for updates.
3. ROTUND_080311_055.JPG: The newly returned Magna Carta
4. ROTUND_080311_089.JPG: Magna Carta -- Great Charter: In 1215 on the plains of Runnymede, an assembly of barons confronted the despotic King John of England and demanded that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal seal, and sent to each of the counties to be read to all freemen. King John agreed, binding himself and his heirs to grant "to all freemen of our kingdom" the rights and liberties described in the great charter, or Magna Carta. Between 1215 and 1297, Magna Carta was reissued by each of King John's successors. To meet his debts from foreign wars, King Edward I imposed new and harsher taxes in 1297. This provoked another confrontation between the king and the barons, resulting not only in the reissue of Magna Carta, but for the first time its entry into the official Statute Rolls of England. The 1297 document on display represents the transition of Magna Carta from a brokered agreement to the foundation of English law. Only four originals of the 1297 Magna Carta remain. By the 17th century, the one shown here was in the possession of the Brudenell family, the earls of Cardigan. It was acquired by the Perot Foundation in 1984 and purchased by David M. Rubenstein in 2007. Mr. Rubenstein has placed Magna Carta on load to the National Archives as a gift to the American people. It is the only Magna Carta permanently residing in the United States. A translation of the full text of the 1297 Magna Carta is available on www.archives.gov. Magna Carta and the American Charters of Freedom: When Englishmen left their homeland to establish colonies in the New World, they brought with them charters that guaranteed they and their heirs would "have and enjoy all liberties and immunities of free and natural subjects." When the English Parliament imposed a stamp tax in 1765, the Massachusetts Assembly referenced violation of Magna Carta in declaring the new tax "null and void." Patriots invoked Magna Carta in making their case for the American Revolution. In 1787 when representatives of the young republic of the United States gathered to draft a constitution, they once again drew upon Magna Carta; authority would be subject to law, and the Constitution would set forth the "supreme Law of the Land." In creating a government of laws, not of men, the Founding Fathers owed a great conceptual debt to Magna Carta. But Magna Carta's legacy is most clearly apparent in our Bill of Rights. The Fifth Amendment guarantees: "No parson shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Written 575 years earlier, Magna Carta declares: "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, ... or in any other was destroyed... except by the lawful judgment of his piers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice." Yet, as close as Magna Carta and American concepts of liberty were, they remain distinct. Magna Carta is a charter of ancient liberties guaranteed by a king to his subjects, the Constitution of the United States is the establishment of a government by "We the people."
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