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 ...

Eight hundred years ago on this day, June 15, King John signed a document that changed the course of history. The Magna Carta limited his own powers and set forth the rights of the people, forming the ...

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 ...

2016-08-05T16:21:37-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1c7/20160805071742003_hd.jpgWilliam Hubbard and Professor A. E. Howard talked about the impact of the Magna ...

As the world celebrates the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, we should remember that the true origins of our modern democratic political world lie not in Runnymede, but right here in the United ...

This year is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Most Americans have heard of Magna Carta, but few know its history or the role it plays today in Anglo–American constitutional law. Fewer still know ...

A.E. Dick Howard has been called the “chief architect” of Virginia’s 1971 Constitution for his role in helping to draft it. He also has consulted in the birth of more than a dozen constitutions around ...

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

This part of Magna Carta has no legal standing today. It only appeared in the first version of the document, drawn up in 1215, and was never placed on the statute book. A post on Facebook suggests ...

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 ...

LONDON — Eight centuries ago, a peace treaty came into being that would become a pillar of English law and the basis of constitutional democracies in the United States and around the world hundreds of ...