The Magna Carta in America
American History Hit
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The Magna Carta: A Document of Freedom and Religious Liberty
In 1687, William Penn publishes a pamphlet on freedom and religious liberty. He includes a copy of the Magna Carta as a source of fundamental law. It was kind of a general idea that was referring to many, many treaties that the English probably had done. But this was the best one they had.
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