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Courtney W

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ringer [[3]mailto:[FOI #4160 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 October 2017 11:33 AM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Article 61 Magna Carta

 

Dear Attorney-General's Department,

 

In the light of Information I have gathered from various sources

 

and the fact that John Howard has referred to the Magna Carta as a
Historical document only, and I believe this to be false as my research
indicates that no Government has the right to repeal the Magna Carta as it
was written before parliaments were ever formed and is in fact a covenant
signed by King John in 1215. and I quote:

 

The Magna Carta of 1215 is a covenant signed by King John on the Isle of
Runnymede in 1215. Article 61 of the Magna Carta is included in this the
original Magna Carta.

In 1297 the Model Parliament confirmed Magna Carta in statute law. Much of
this statute has since been repealed. Yet while Parliament can repeal or
amend any Act of Parliament (statute), Parliament was not a party to the
original Common Law contract of 1215, and cannot, therefore, amend or
repeal it lawfully, and thus its original provisions remain intact,
including article 61

 

Now as we are a common law Commonwealth country and there has been no
successful referendum to change that Status contrary to some politicians
beliefs

 

Can you please truthfully answer this question:

 

Is article 61 and in fact the entire Magna Carta still intact and lawful
in Australia,

and if you say no! Please explain how it is no longer lawful in Australia
seeing as my research shows it is still in tact and Governments do not
have the right to repeal this covenant or its content.  

 

Yours faithfully,

victor of the family sturgeon

 

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