{"id":51330,"date":"2021-08-30T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=51330"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:26:36","slug":"did-magna-carta-lead-inevitably-to-the-scopes-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=51330","title":{"rendered":"Did Magna Carta lead inevitably to the Scopes Trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh probably not. But Kevin Underhill, at his brilliant, satirical take on the worst of law, Lowering The Bar, writes something in his excellent and hilarious treatise on Article 41 of Magna Carta<\/a> and how some, uh, insurrectionists tried to take command of Edinburgh Castle instead of paying the entry fee…<\/p>\n

That sentence was threatening to run on. Here’s what I’m getting to in Kevin’s (I don’t know him but I’ve been reading him for years and love him madly so…) dissertation:<\/p>\n

You know how you\u2019re sometimes stuck writing something by committee, and there\u2019s that one guy who has an idea that\u2019s stupid but he just won\u2019t shut up about it, and finally everybody else realizes that it\u2019ll be a lot easier to just put his stupid idea in there so you can all move on with your lives, and it won\u2019t cause any harm because it\u2019s an obvious non-starter that nobody\u2019s ever going to bother with anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n

Pretty sure that\u2019s how we got Article 61.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I’m pretty sure that’s how Tennessee got the 1925 Butler Act, which was the biblical inspiration for the ACLU action leading to the Scopes Trial.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh probably not. But Kevin Underhill, at his brilliant, satirical take on the worst of law, Lowering The Bar, writes something in his excellent and hilarious treatise on Article 41 of Magna Carta and how some, uh, insurrectionists tried to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,1175],"tags":[128,7586,6106,1579,699,865,1333,7585],"class_list":["post-51330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-aclu","tag-edinburgh-castle","tag-john-scopes","tag-kevin-underhill","tag-lowering-the-bar","tag-magna-carta","tag-scopes-trial","tag-tenneesse-butler-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t