The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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The Myth of Magna Carta
Magna Carta has built up this mythic quality as being a fundamental, unchangeable law of England. It's very interesting that in Shakespeare's King John there's no mention of Magna Carta. Cook and these people have to justify what they're doing by saying their opposition to the king is lawful. And so anyway, you can see here this totemic symbol of their liberties.
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