Patriots And Tyrants
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Do you remember how the Teutons — Hermann and his Germans, and Witte- kind and his Saxons — had always rebelled against taxation by the Romans or the Franks ? They were right ; and yet there must be taxes (money paid into the common treasury by the people) if there was to be any government at all. The difficulty was settled by the English on the field of Runnymede. The people must consent to be taxed, or, as our fathers 98 PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS put it in the days of the American Revolution, ther...e must be no taxation without representation. That was poUtical Hberty.
No one of those present at this assembly supposed that King John liked to sign this Magna Charta ; but when he did it quietly and without any outward sign of opposition, they '' hoped he was inclined henceforth to all gentleness and peace. But far otherwise was it. Some of the people said grunt- ingly and with much laughter and derision, * Behold !
this is the twenty-fifth king of England ; and lo !
he is not now a king any longer.' " That was not true, for he was only deprived of the power to be a tyrant king, but it was just the way John felt, and right in the midst of the company he fell into a rage, and '' commenced gnashing his teeth, scowling with his eyes, and, seizing sticks and limbs of trees, began to gnaw them and break them in pieces to vent his rage." Truly he was almost beside himself with anger, this tyrant king who had been forced in spite of himself to give to his people a Great Charter of Liberty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Do you remember how the Teutons — Hermann and his Germans, and Witte- kind and his Saxons — had always rebelled against taxation by the Romans or the Franks ? They were right ; and yet there must be taxes (money paid into the common treasury by the people) if there was to be any government at all. The difficulty was settled by the English on the field of Runnymede. The people must consent to be taxed, or, as our fathers 98 PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS put it in the days of the American Revolution, ther...e must be no taxation without representation. That was poUtical Hberty.
No one of those present at this assembly supposed that King John liked to sign this Magna Charta ; but when he did it quietly and without any outward sign of opposition, they '' hoped he was inclined henceforth to all gentleness and peace. But far otherwise was it. Some of the people said grunt- ingly and with much laughter and derision, * Behold !
this is the twenty-fifth king of England ; and lo !
he is not now a king any longer.' " That was not true, for he was only deprived of the power to be a tyrant king, but it was just the way John felt, and right in the midst of the company he fell into a rage, and '' commenced gnashing his teeth, scowling with his eyes, and, seizing sticks and limbs of trees, began to gnaw them and break them in pieces to vent his rage." Truly he was almost beside himself with anger, this tyrant king who had been forced in spite of himself to give to his people a Great Charter of Liberty.
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