The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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John Reneeg's Quashed the Charter
The king is under the law of the church. The pope actually will step in at that stage as he as indeed did and forbid any sort of constraint like that placed on a sovereign. No pope, no sovereign in the Middle Ages could accept that sort of control from within their own power base. It was inconceivable. And that's dropped from all subsequent reissues of the charter.
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