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    w-t-f.... sotheby's is selling the magna carta for 20-30 million. umm.... doesn't that belong in a museum somewhere for public consumption/civic history????

    Oh, wait... it was on loan from Ross Perot. Thanks, guy....

    http://news.aol.com/story/_a/magna-c...00010000000001

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    Maybe since the US Government (SCOTUS) figuratively "sold" the Magna Carta out from under Americans (imminent domain slanted towards developers)...This is kosher, then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    Maybe since the US Government (SCOTUS) figuratively "sold" the Magna Carta out from under Americans (imminent domain slanted towards developers)...This is kosher, then.
    Ummmm the Magna Carta ia a British document and predates he U.S. Constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Embyr View Post
    w-t-f.... sotheby's is selling the magna carta for 20-30 million...
    Oh, wait... it was on loan from Ross Perot. Thanks, guy....
    Ross Perot paid $1.5 million in 1984 for his copy of the 792-year-old document. If he's asking $20-30 million today, it's price has increased by 1,333% to 2,000% in just the last 23 years. Fuck! I feel better about gasoline prices now, don't you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    Ummmm the Magna Carta ia a British document and predates he U.S. Constitution.
    I'm referring to this:

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    The Magna Carta is pretty overrated in terms of the development of liberty, I wouldn't pay more than 2-3 million. The constitution is even more overrated and was actually a reduction in liberty. I'd pay maybe 1 million for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Embyr View Post
    w-t-f.... sotheby's is selling the magna carta for 20-30 million. umm.... doesn't that belong in a museum somewhere for public consumption/civic history????

    Oh, wait... it was on loan from Ross Perot. Thanks, guy....
    There are a bunch of copies already in various public places:
    I wish he would just have left it in the National Archives though. Greedy folks. Leave our museum/archival displays alone!

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    I'm referring to this:
    Oh the eminent domain contraversy. Is development by private individuals of land taken from private citizens for the betterment of a community constitute the "public use" clause of the Fifth amendment?

    Personally I think not. Some of the economies where this has taken place are in desperate need of something.

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