only of value as long as esteemed valuable by a world of free men willing to defend if necessary these hard-won blessings

   In May 1215 under pressure from his barons (and the Archbishop of Canterbury) King John signed the Magna Carta.  Pope Innocent III in his letter of 8-24-1215 stated:  "...on behalf of Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and by the authority of Saints Peter and Paul His apostles...we utterly reject and condemn this settlement (Magna Carta), and under threat of excommunication we order that the king should not dare to observe it and the barons and their associates should not insist on it being observed."  (-Selected Letters of Innocent III, ed. Cheney and Semple, pp. 212-16).  Civil war ran throughout England 1215-Oct. 1216 when King John died of illness.  The next English king accepted the Magna Carta.            -following  W. Warren:  King John, University of California Press, 1961, 1978
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    Among the heritage of the free world are treasures of document, of precious lives and of love's labors.   To see that these never become love's labors lost, people must learn with greater diligence the safeguarding of the gifts and privileges of Life and protection of their own feelings of God-happiness.  A Constitution, a Magna Charta, a Bill of Rights, a doorway through which our words come (many of which are a heritage and an actual windfall from the love of someone else's service and labors in God's name) is only of value as long as esteemed valuable by a world of free men willing to defend if necessary these hard-won blessings for themselves and their posterity.  

                                            -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 4:7 (1961)