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The Magna Carta in America

American History Hit

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Magna Carta: The Great Charter

In 1215, King John was struggling with a looming civil war based on taxation and all sorts of problems that these barons. wanted to be in charge of judicial things within their own counties. What is interesting about this is it is a way of enshrining these things that were sort of how things were done for the most part.

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