* To protect and preserve the sovereignty of the United Kingdom

* To uphold vigorously the rights, liberties and customs of the subjects of the Crown

* To challenge any and all attempts to abrogate, dilute, discard, diminish, subvert, compromise or undermine by any means whatsoever the constitution of this sovereign nation.

* To ignite the smouldering anger in the United Kingdom against the destruction of our sovereignty and nationality, our rights and liberties, our freedoms and customs, our lifestyles and traditions, our values and way of thinking, our livelihoods and commercial practices, our culture and economy, our ability to legislate and defend ourselves, and our legal system - all of which are threatened by the uninvited imposition of laws, directives, regulations and judicial decisions by the European Union and its institutions.

* To provide a conduit for that anger, so that it may be expressed and galvanised into positive legal action.

* To increase awareness of the great issues at stake both nationally and internationally.

* To raise money to mount fundamental (and therefore expensive) legal challenges to the constitutionality of the EU in the United Kingdom.

* To gather practical support from lawyers, constitutionalists and others with expertise of value to the Society.

* To launch a petition via the hereditary House of Lords to The Queen.

* To use the 'oxygen of publicity' to increase awareness amongst the tens of thousands

of government officials and enforcement agencies that, one day, they may be held personally responsible and accountable for their actions in enforcing EU laws and regulations in the United Kingdom, contrary to common law and the constitution.

* To remind even the most powerful members of government and the judiciary that the same accountability may one day be equally applied to them.

"How did we ever come voluntarily to join the most selfish, protectionist, inward-looking political body the world has ever seen? It steadfastly fails to define any benefits it might have claimed for itself, and defiantly ignores the injury and damage it does."

"I am sure the time is ripe for a well-devised assault on all who by design or ignorance or thoughtlessness have already made great steps towards overthrowing our constitution. Cleverness and commonsense and balance and money are all needed."

"What is needed is the support and enthusiasm of…people who are…already alert to the constitutional and political disasters which lie ahead if misguided bureaucrats and governments and supporting deceivers have their way."

The Magna Carta Society was formed in 1999 by a small group of British subjects concerned with reversing the helter-skelter destruction of our birthright and restoring the constitution of the United Kingdom in accordance with common law, and as laid down in Magna Carta and in the Declaration and Bill of Rights.

We are not lawyers. We represent no political party. Most founder members belong to no political party. We speak merely for ourselves and others of like mind.

Like it or not, we find ourselves representing a growing proportion of the UK population - some opinion polls suggest it is now almost half - who currently support the proposition that the United Kingdom should leave the European Union. Many thousands do so from the bitter experience of seeing their livelihoods and way of life destroyed for no good reason other than to satisfy the whims and egos of politicians, and without any discernible counter-balancing benefits.

Every one of those, perhaps nearly 20 million, people is currently disenfranchised, since no major political party offers a commitment to take the UK out of the EU in its current or prospective manifesto. Neither has any political party with a realistic prospect of forming an administration ever made such a commitment since the passage of the European Communities Act, 1972.

So much of the EU’s erosion of our rights has taken place via the skilled use of its inexorable, stealthy, salami-slicing techniques that these momentous issues have never been put to the test. Which is precisely why we intend to test them now.

Involvement in the Magna Carta Society is open to all. Individuals and companies can become "Friends of Magna Carta" by returning the application provided, and by making a donation to the Society’s fighting fund.

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