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But even if the Magna Carta is filled with the mounts and bellyaching of the barons, that bellyaching turned out to have profound consequences for the future of England. For by putting so much weight on the authority of a common law, the Angevins had stirred in the nobility a dawning realisation that this was their law too. A generation before, the barons couldn' t have cared less about the rights of men held in prison for unstated causes. That was what happened to commoners. But under John, bad things had happened to them, land stolen, widows hounded, heirs made to disappear. So now it was the time to use the weapons Henry II' s revolution in justice had put into their hands, and by an amazing irony, the Angevins became the schoolmasters of their own correction. Henry II' s transformation of royal justice had come back to bite his own dynasty. |
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rán ér jǐn guǎn dà xiàn zhāng lǐ dōu shì guì zú men de mǎn fù láo sāo, shì shí zhèng míng, zhèi xiē láo sāo duì yīng guó de wèi lái, chǎn shēng le shēn yuǎn de yǐng xiǎng. wáng shì rú cǐ qiáng diào pǔ tōng fǎ de quán wēi, zhè yě jiù huàn xǐng le guì zú men, fān rán xǐng wù, zhè yě shì tā men de fǎ lǜ. yǐ qián de guì zú duì mò míng rù yù de fàn rén de quán lì gēn běn bù xiè yī gù, píng mín cái yǒu zhè zhǒng zāo yù. dàn yuē hàn zài wèi qī jiān, tā men yě nán táo è yùn, tǔ dì bèi dào, guǎ fù bèi jiū chán, zǐ sì shī zōng. shì shí hòu lì yòng hēng lì èr shì, sī fǎ gé mìng de wǔ qì kàng zhēng le, jí wéi fěng cì de shì, ān rú wáng shì zài zhè chǎng zhēn duì zì jǐ de biàn gé zhōng, bàn yǎn le dǎo shī jué sè. hēng lì èr shì duì wáng jiā sī fǎ de biàn gé, zuì zhōng chéng le zì jǐ wáng cháo de jué mù rén. yīn cǐ, jí shǐ zhè bìng bù yì wèi zhe mín zhǔ de dàn shēng. |