King Charles III stood before a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and gave a speech about everything America inherited from Britain. He named the inheritance by name. The British Enlightenment. English common law. Magna Carta. The 1689 Declaration of Rights that, as he put it, gave us “many of the principles reiterated – often verbatim – in the American Bill of Rights of 1791.”
He told Congress that Magna Carta has been cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789. Some of those rulings, he noted, set the rule that the president’s power is subject to checks and balances. He pointed to the stone along the Thames at Runnymede, where King John signed Magna Carta in 1215. Britain has given an acre of that ground to the United States in memory of John F. Kennedy. He echoed his prime minister’s line that the Anglo-American bond is “an indispensable partnership.”
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