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Magna Carta Libertatum

-The Great Charter of the Liberties of England-

Magna Carta Libertatum (Magna Carta) is a basic document, which proclaims rules that have become a part of English law and are now the foundation of the constitutions not only in every English-speaking nation, but also in the whole world. The Magna Carta, which means ¡§great charter¡¨ in Latin, is the document that established Anglo-Saxon¡¦s democracy and many of legal and political institutions. English barons and churchmen drew it up and forced the tyrannical King John (i.e., John Lackland) to set his seal on it in June 15, 1215 along the south bank of the Thames in a meadow called Runnymede. Therefore, if we want to find political agreement between king and people that settle the liberties of the people, or limit the power of the crown we can find it in Magna Carta.

The 1215 Magna Carta was legally valid for no more than three months. King John¡¦s son Henry III reissued it as soon as he came to the throne in 1216, again in 1217, and again in 1225. The last version had become law, enforced, confirmed, and interpreted by Parliament with a few changes in its form, but without allowing any new powers, legislative, judicial, or executive, to

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