{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Birth of Parliament","description":"After Magna Carta was extracted from King John by barons in that peace treaty in Runnymede in 1215, it would require greater efforts to hold kings to the permanent covenants agreed to by England's king and the nobility. It was essential to establish a political body to act as a Rock of Gibraltar capable of preventing kings from violating the historic agreement that benefitted all of the English people. That immovable rock was Parliament.  Creating Parliament was a heavy lift.  It began as the Great Council of the Norman Kings comprised of the barons, his tenants in chief, but that was not enough.  They did not represent all of the English People. For Parliament to truly constitute the "Community of the Realm," all of England, it had to include the representatives of all of the people.  This episode is the story of how that happened.  When was Parliament born? How was it created? Who has been called the "Father of the House of Commons," a man who paid the ultimate price for creating it? What are the Provisions of Oxford? What happened in the Battle of Lewes and the Battle of Evesham? What role did those battles play in the creation of Parliament? Who was the King whose negligence and incompetence led to the creation of Parliament? The answers to those questions and more will be revealed in Episode 9 of The Rule of Law: The Birth of Parliament. ","author_name":"The Rule of Law","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/486792","html":"