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 ...

Exactly 800 years ago, a group of noblemen presented England’s King John with an ultimatum: Recognize limits to the power of the monarchy, or face civil war. King John spent the month between mid-May ...

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 ...

LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...

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 ...

What do a medieval English text and Massachusetts have in common? More than you’d think. The Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibit “Magna Carta: Cornerstone of Liberty,” opening Wednesday, features 20 ...

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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 ...

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 ...