Reading political blogs and editorials and watching political YouTubes first thing in the AM makes me feel sick deep down inside.  (Please don't let the liberal sources of these things distract you; habeus corpus is not a liberal or a conservative thing.)  I can't really teach the kids about what this means without going all the way back to the middle ages.  I'm switching gears.  I'm going to have Sterling read through A Child's History of the World and then feed him James Daugherty's Magna Charta and Uncle Eric's Whatever Happened to Justice.  We'll then go back into our study of colonial times with an understand of how the world stage was set for this amazing idea.