The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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The History of Magna Carta
At every moment, a constitutional crisis in the 13th century, the Charter is reissue. And as Michael says, it then becomes law number one in the statute books. It's used now as a great sort of lever touched down. Was that around in the13th? Yes, very much. When the Counties want, as it were, their liberties, when the men of Devon are at odds with the King, it's the reissue of Magna Carta. The issue of the Forest Charter that goes with it. We have the Civil War. Before that we have Cook, the great lawyer and Ampere Jewish Cooks,. he reintroduces it as a centre and
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