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 ...

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 ...

British academics have discovered a lost Magna Carta from the year 1300 in the collection of the Harvard Law Library. David Carpenter, a medieval history professor at King’s College London, was ...