clause 61

(noun)

Section of the Magna Carta that stated a committee of twenty-five barons could at any time meet and overrule the will of the king if he defied the provisions of the charter, and could seize his castles and possessions if it was considered necessary.

Related Terms

Examples of clause 61 in the following topics:

  • Moods in Dependent Clauses

  • Verb Position

    • One of the most important grammatical concepts in German is that the conjugated verb is always in the second position of the main clause.  
    • Adverbial and prepositional phrases, and even direct and indirect objects can be the first element of the clause.  
    • Understand the position of the conjugated verb in a main clause

  • The Magna Carta

    • The 1215 document contained a large section that is now called clause 61 (the clauses were not originally numbered).
    • Clause 61 was a serious challenge to John's authority as a ruling monarch.

  • Earlier Version of Learning Communities

    • The Glazer chapter focused more on the nature of learning communities while this chapter focuses more on how to create good learning communities within your class (hence, the addition of the clause "as an instructional model").

  • The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State

    • The Establishment Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " Together with the Free Exercise Clause ("... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"), these two clauses make up what are called the "religion clauses" of the First Amendment.
    • Incorporation of the Establishment Clause in 1947 has been tricky and subject to much more critique than incorporation of the Free Exercise Clause.
    • Critics have also argued that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to incorporate only individual rights found in the Bill of Rights; the Establishment Clause, unlike the Free Exercise Clause (which critics readily concede protects individual rights), does not purport to protect individual rights.
    • One main question of the Establishment Clause is: does government financial assistance to religious groups violate the Establishment Clause?
    • Distinguish the Establishment Clause from other clauses of the First Amendment

  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • The Free Exercise Clause is the accompanying clause with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together read:" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
    • Then it took on a relatively narrow view of the governmental restrictions required under the clause.
    • This interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause continued into the 1960s.
    • Describe how the interpretation of the Free Exercise clause has changed over time.

  • Promoting the General Welfare

    • In many constitutions, the general welfare clause has been used as a basis for promoting the well-being of the governed people.
    • The Preamble of the United States Constitution states that the Union was established "to promote the general Welfare. " The Taxing and Spending Clause is the clause that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.
    • There have been different interpretations of the meaning of the General Welfare clause.
    • General Welfare clause arises from two distinct disagreements: The first concerns whether the General Welfare clause grants an independent spending power or is a restriction upon the taxing power; the second disagreement pertains to what exactly is meant by the phrase "general welfare. "
    • Illustrate how the General Welfare clause of the Constitution is applied to public policy

  • What About The BSD License?

    • Fortunately, many of the projects that used this license became aware of the problem, and simply dropped the advertising clause.
    • The result is the revised BSD license, which is simply the original BSD license with the advertising clause removed.
    • However, there is perhaps one reason to prefer the revised BSD license to the MIT/X license, which is that the BSD includes this clause:
    • It's not clear that without such a clause, a recipient of the software would have had the right to use the licensor's name anyway, but the clause removes any possible doubt.
    • If you wish to use the most recent revised BSD license, a template is available at opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.

  • Accessibility

  • Semicolons

    • Semicolons are used to link related clauses and to separate clauses that contain additional punctuation.
    • Semicolons, like colons and commas, indicate pauses within a sentence to show relationships between words and clauses.
    • Semicolons also link clauses of equal importance, but unlike commas, do not always require a coordinating conjunction.
    • Semicolons can join closely related independent clauses that are not linked with a coordinating conjunction:
    • Semicolons can also be used between independent clauses linked with a transitional phrase or a conjunctive adverb.