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, 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 ...

Guest Opinion. The U.S. Constitution is often thought to have originated from the intellectual musings of the Founding Fathers in a tobacco smoke-filled room in Philadelphia. The Magna Carta (1215) is ...

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 ...

If the 4th of July has a pre-game, it is June 15. On that date in 1215, the Magna Carta was signed, beginning a gradual process of defined individual rights and limiting the power and authority of the ...

May 15 (Reuters) - Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection ...

The good citizens of New Jersey are getting ready to deal Mayor Frank (“I Am the Law”) Hague of Jersey City the worst blow of his undisputed 27-year career as boss of the state. The weapon: a new ...

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 ...