We generally acknowledge that the United States — a nation based on individual freedom, natural rights, the rule of law, separation of church and state and popular sovereignty — was founded on three ...

At AEI on Thursday, Philip Hamburger of Columbia Law School argued that the Magna Carta is important, not so much for what it says, but for what it reveals about the enduring danger of absolute power ...

The Magna Carta is as close as England gets to a founding constitution. Its first issuance, in 1215 at Runnymede, was a ...

Police have arrested a man who tried to steal a document more than eight centuries old which is considered to be a building block of democracy of the United States. The best preserved of the four ...

Among the many signs that were held at the No Kings Rally on Oct. 18, there was one that caught my eye and really resonated ...

The Magna Carta, 800 years old this month, is arguably the greatest constitutional document in human history. Over the centuries, it has become the iconic symbol of the freedom of individuals against ...

Andrew Blick's book 'Beyond Magna Carta: a Constitution for the United Kingdom' is now available at the Library. A Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, Blick wrote this book bearing ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” — to which England’s King John affixed his seal June 15, 1215, 810 years ago Sunday — was essentially a peace treaty that was intended to end a civil war between ...

Up the River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called “the most famous milestone of our rights and ...