I recently heard a Ukrainian philosopher saying that the roots of Magna Carta are in the Norsemen’s style of negotiating agreements with the Scandinavian kings, a method of government transplanted to England by the Norsemen’s Norman descendents. He was comparing this to the similar style of rule of the various Cossack hordes that once roamed and helped define the Ukraine. This was in contrast to how Russia’s style of rule was of an absolute autocrat constantly conquering new territories. The idea of limiting the power of a Russian government is as alien to them as it would have been to Louis XIV.
I recently heard a Ukrainian philosopher saying that the roots of Magna Carta are in the Norsemen’s style of negotiating agreements with the Scandinavian kings, a method of government transplanted to England by the Norsemen’s Norman descendents. He was comparing this to the similar style of rule of the various Cossack hordes that once roamed and helped define the Ukraine. This was in contrast to how Russia’s style of rule was of an absolute autocrat constantly conquering new territories. The idea of limiting the power of a Russian government is as alien to them as it would have been to Louis XIV.