“Here is a law which is above the King”
Do you know where Churchill made this statement? “Here is a law which is above the King which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it.” —J.F.
Yes, in a book in 1956. Churchill was explaining Magna Carta, the Great Charter of Freedoms, one of the towering benchmarks of Western Civilization. In his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, vol. 1, The Birth of Britain (London: Cassell, 1956), 256-57.…
