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Old 05-11-2008, 09:38 PM
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I might write more about this later. In a nutshell on March 28, 1861 Congress adjourned for the prosecution of the War. On July 4 President Lincoln convened Congress under the extraordinary occasions clause.
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Originally Posted by Shoonra
It is worth noting that the fealty to the Pope, which you cited for its explicit mention of the Templar abbey in Dover, is the legal basis for the invalidation of the Magna Carta after it was sealed at Runnymede.
During discussion about the Treaty of 1213 and the Magna Charta (1215).

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/john1a.html
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