OCBA Celebrates Law Day 2015 Day Law Celebrates OCBA
APRIL 2015 Vol. 47, No. 3 A Publication of the OKLAHOMA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION WWW.OKCBAR.ORG OCBA Celebrates Law Day 2015 U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot to Speak at Law Day Luncheon by Curtis Thomas, Law Day Chair Association erected in 1957. That gran- of persons. Colonists took with them to One of the most iconic moments in the ite memorial stands today as a tangible America the idea that the sovereign must legal history of the world was the signing reminder of our commitment to the rule of recognize and respect the rights of the indi- of the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. law, the connections between Magna Carta vidual. During the American Revolution, That moment has been memorialized on and the political and legal history of the Magna Carta was cited for its symbolic monuments, murals, paintings, and friezes, United States, and the continuing symbolic significance by Thomas Paine, Benjamin and it even appears on the bronze doors significance of Magna Carta in the world- Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, among of the United States Supreme Court. The wide struggle for rights. many others. U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot Magna Carta has inspired, and been cited Magna Carta’s most oft-cited provision, Magna Carta continues to inform our by, our nation’s founders, jurists, and civil Chapter 39, declares, “No free man shall thinking about rights and liberty. When rights leaders. Magna Carta has rightly be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of Eleanor Roosevelt introduced the Universal Perhaps more than any other document earned a prominent place in the pantheon his rights or possessions … except by the Declaration of Human Rights to the United in human history, Magna Carta has come of cherished documents of freedom.
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