Stikkord: John Adams

The Nordic Spirit from Gulatinget 1024 in the British Magna Carta and U.S. Bill of Rights

Gulating Christian law forms basis of Magna Carta and the U.S. Bill of Rights. The constitutional spirit later expressed in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights was already present in substance at Gulatinget in 1024, and from there it entered the longer North Atlantic tradition, and formed the success […]