Note 512 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 2)

Cf. Report on Dignity of a Peer, I. 63, where it is mentioned as “remarkable that no one article in the Charter has reference to the previous existence of any assembly convened for general purposes of legislation; nor does the charter contain any provision for the calling of any such assembly in the future, or any provision purporting the existence by law of any representative system for the purpose of general legislation.”