I enjoyed the section on the Magna Carta's Anniversary, ("800 Years of Magna Carta," NYLJ, May 1), but I think history diminished its importance. It granted rights mostly to the nobility and expressly ...

While the very signing of the Abraham Accords is an unprecedented step towards regional and worldwide peace, there is not one ...

The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...

The Queen leads celebrations to commemorate the sealing of the Magna Carta. — -- Queen Elizabeth led celebrations today to commemorate the sealing of the Magna Carta 800 years ago in a field ...

Until the past week, I had held fast to the belief that America’s version of representative democracy, which has been around since the Constitution was ratified in 1788, was stronger than one person, ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...