The Molmutine Laws: The History of Magna Carta
The basis for English Common Law, the Law of the Land, is the ancient Molmutine Laws which were implemented by our second monarch, King Molmutius, who was the successor to Brutus, the founder of Britain.
The Trojan Brutus, the great-grandson of Prince Aeneas, came from the line of Japheth, the son of Noah. He and his group may have been responsible for bringing the sophisticated thinking of ancient Greece and Troy to England.
The Laws were written as a set of triads based on the Celtic sacred number of creation, three: father, mother, and child.
The way the law was implemented is unusual in that they did not keep records of the trials to avoid the setting of precedence so that each case could be judged on an individual basis.
This meant that a fair and true judgement was always passed because the nuances of each case were not ignored in favour of following the rulings of previous judgements.
In contrast, contemporary English law places great importance on the setting of precedence through Case Law in the higher courts which is strictly followed by the lower courts.
The Molmutine Laws were followed in England until the 9th Century when the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great used them as the basis for reforming the legal system. He had them translated from the original Briton into Latin so that they could be translated into Anglo-Saxon and brought into his own legal framework. King Alfred’s Doombook compiled ancient laws with longstanding Germanic customs, and practices from the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms with added Christian principles.
King Alfred’s Law is now considered to be the basis for English Common Law and the source of concepts such as liberty of the individual, family life, a decentralized government, and equal justice for all under the law.
William the Norman replaced King Alfred’s law with a feudal system of government which concentrated power into the hands of the king resulting in the unbridled power of King John against the people, which Magna Carta sought to limit.
Magna Carta is the most authoritative re-statement or expression of our constitution and the oldest consolidated written statement of English Law, as noted by William Blackstone in his Commentaries *85. British judge, Lord Denning, described the Magna Carta as “the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot.”
In 1215, Magna Carta gave us the solution to a tyrannical government in the form of Trial By Jury, a clear principle of English constitutional law. This gives the people the right to judge the law and the justice of the law as a guard against government oppression.
Legume Terrae, the Law of the Land, as established in Magna Carta was the common, ancient, fundamental law, that the Kings were bound by oath to observe. It did not include any acts, statutes, or laws enacted by the King himself, the legislative power of the nation at that time. Therefore, our current legislation is constitutionally subordinate to the concept of Common Law Juries where the people judge the law instead of the Judiciary.
Our statutory legal system has confused the understanding of the term ‘Common Law’ by using it to describe what should be known as Case Law as determined by a Judge in the higher courts.
Trial By Jury Links
Will Keyte on the British Constitution and Trial By Jury:
https://libertytactics.co.uk/will-keyte-constitutional-law/
Will Keyte discusses Trial By Jury with Richard Vobes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mBC873TSEE
More from Will Keyte on the common law constitution with Richard Vobes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JPMY-PZhdI
Martin Geddes discusses government tyranny through politics and administrative courts:
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/trial-by-a-jury-of-sovereigns-or?sd=pf
How the People Govern their Country through the Jury:
https://www.commonlawconstitution.org
Jury nullification – when a jury rejects the enforcement of laws:
https://fija.org/
The history of law, how it has been subverted, and using it to hold government to account:
https://www.edward-fitzgerald.com/smoke-and-mirrors
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