Today was great and a bit crazy in the morning. I woke up late because my alarm did not go off so I rushed to get out of the house. I like to get to class at least an hour early so that I could read and prepare for class.
In Property, we learned about chain of title and the succession of property but probably the most interesting thing we learned was not about property at all. Let me explain. Professor Whitman has been a professor a very long time so he has several connections across the world. One such connection was his friendship to a British Lord of Parliament, Robert Acton.
A while ago when Professor Whitman was visiting England, Lord Acton gave him a personal tour of the House of Commons as well as the House of Lords and Professor Whitman said that he was able to go where most people are not allowed to go. One of these places was the Victoria Tower. The Victoria Tower is one of the two towers surrounding the House of Parliament, the other being Big Ben, in the tower are the Archives where many important historical documents are stored.
Professor Whitman went up in a very small elevator to the top floor of the tower to the Archives. When he got up there, the archivists gave him documents that they thought that he might like to read. One of them was the original Stamp Act and the other one was the original copy of the Declaration of Independence that we sent over to King George the Third! There was no protective covering on those documents either, so he was actually able to hold the document as if he was King George the Third reading it! I thought that was awesome because I have read a lot about the Revolutionary War and that time period.