From: "Michael Burke", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>180610 JUN 00
>By James Lyons, Home Affairs Correspondent, PA News
>Gun enthusiasts were today preparing to fight strict
>new controls expected to be announced soon by the
>Government.
>snip......
>At some point in your future, there must occur
>another Magna Carta between the people and their government,
>and not simply between the government and the monarch, the
>sooner the better!
ET
Very good point. It is on precisely this issue that the Magna Carta Society
was set up. We are working towards a confirmation of liberties. I believe
that Magna Carta was confirmed about 63 times from 1215 until 1688 when the
Declaration of Rights was drawn up to put the constitution back on course.
Please note however that the agreement is between the Monarch & the people.
The government don't come into it.
The reason we need a confirmation of liberties is because the Cabinet
unlawfully altered the Coronation Oath of 1688 on two occasions, once in
1937 & again in 1953.
The Coronation Oath 1688 was designed to restrain the exercise of the royal
prerogative, which is precisely that power in the State which is wielded,
under the guise of advisors and executants of the Sovereign's policy, by
Cabinet Ministers themselves. By altering the Oath, they were in effect
claiming by their own motion to vary the terms on which Parliament permitted
them to hold office.
The Monarchs Oath does not simply bind her, but her Government, and all
those who exercise power on her behalf to maintain the laws of England.
George V died on 20th January 1936 at Sandringham in Norfolk.
His successor, Edward VIII abdicated on 11th December 1936 and reigned for
324 days uncrowned.
Arrangements had been made for his coronation on 12th May 1937.
The Crown was now placed on the head of his brother, the Duke of York, who
came to the throne as George VI on 12th May 1937. (My thanks to Norman for
clearing up the confusion!)
Could this be why the 1937 Firearms Act, the 1937 Firearms (Amendment) Act,
the 1936 Public Order Act and the 1953 Prevention of Crime Act (which
reversed the presumption of innocence) were all done by use of the
prerogative and at a time when the Monarch had not been crowned?
I believe that the Bodkin report of 1934 mentioned that the 1920's Firearms
Act had served a useful purpose in establishing a prohibited section. Fully
automatic weapons were introduced into that catagory in 1937and having
established that they could get away with it, the rest is history.
I also note that there was a coalition Government in 1920 & 1937-coincidence
perhaps?
Regards,
Mike Burke.
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