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Further to my recent post Bill of Rights I have received an e-mail with a link to a site The Anglo Saxon Chronicle that takes takes up the final paragraph “If we wish to remain free, we may well have to repeat the struggles of the past to see it off again, but as in the past it will be a long drawn out struggle because once Roman Law takes hold it does not easily relinquish power.”

Which takes further the concept of Britain’s common law rights and explains some of the legal principals behind them and their self-protecting attributes, so that we can always as a final recourse make claim to them to return the power of our own Government into the hands of the people.

Our system of Government is quite complicated, because it relies not on a written Constitution, but on the common law that is the law that grew naturally out of those early days, when we began to associate with our neighbours, it relies on basic concepts which are self-evident and does not rely on a codified system that has been written down, it is if you wish a movable feast. It has been made mainly by judges who have used existing laws as a base for their decisions, often relying on the earlier judgments of others to form their own opinions, with a safeguard always available to the people who form part of their own government and legal system.

The concept that we are only ruled by our agreement is central to the whole basis of our laws it is not just an empty political dream the very basis of our system draws heavily on that concept.

We decide who will make our laws we decide who will be our king we decide if the laws our law makers initiate are acceptable to us, because we are central to those powers. Without the willing cooperation of the people our system simply would not work.

Integral to out freedoms is the ability to change our governments, to be tried by a jury of our peers, who have the power to overturn a law by not convicting anyone if they feel the law is unjust.

All of these principals are at present under attack, as our governments continue to try to draw all powers to themselves, the power to elect our law makers is undermined by the party system when the party managers get together and decide not to offer alternatives at an election as has been the case over the EU all main parties are offering the same thing and that is membership of the EU, it does not matter what we want in that case because which ever party we vote for will produce the same result. The right for the people to have a say in our laws in the courts is being undermined by the present moves to deny the right of a jury trial, the right of a jury to overturn a law by not convicting is under threat the Auld report, suggests The defendant should no longer have an elective right to trial by judge and jury that that juries have no right to acquit in defiance of the law or in disregard of the evidence thus removing our participation in our own laws.

It may be inconvenient for these who wish to rule us, to have their laws questioned in court, but unless they wish to change our whole system of law, then they do not have a choice.
Of course that is exactly what is being attempted, Parliament is taking powers they should not have, they are installing laws which force their rules and remove our rights to object. What they are doing is to attempt to destroy our basic common law rights to rule ourselves.

The basis of the British system of government is a closed loop:
• the People are sovereign;
• their sovereignty is represented by the Monarch whom they, the People, choose;
• the Monarch, as head of the Government, oversees the work of the Government;
• the Government governs the People.
(The Government thus governs the People with the consent of the People.)

At the coronation, the Sovereign is acclaimed as the choice of Parliament acting for the People, and the coronation oath, whose continuous history can be traced to the time of the Confessor, and whose development embraces the Magna Carta, confirms that the Sovereign’s authority is itself subject to the Law (and thus all authority delegated from the Sovereign is subject to the Law).
Without the Monarch, Parliament cannot legislate, for although the Royal Assent is given by the three Lords Commissioners for the Monarch, that Assent has first to be authorised by the Monarch. While it is true that the full authority of the Monarch as Sovereign may be attained only with the Three Estates of the Realm assembled in full Parliament, the Monarch will always retain the Royal Prerogatives: to dismiss the prime minister; and to dissolve the Parliament. We have a balance; we have a closed loop; we have a sovereign people.

This is opposed by the Roman System when the parliament has all the power and allows the people only those powers it wishes. But those rights are granted by parliament and are always under the control of parliament. A glance at the EU Charta of Fundamental Rights will show that it grants its citizens the right to life, the right to marry, the right to own property, the right toa fair trial, etc.

We in Britian already have these rights by birth and our government’s job is nothing more than to protect those rights, that is what elect and pay them for in the first place, it is not within their power to refuse to honour those rights, or to remove those rights or to give away the powers we loan to them in order that they may protect our rights, to a higher authority. By so doing,by trying to subvert the rights of Englishmen our government have abdicated and are an illegal government, and we have every right to remove them.